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Work Quotes by Albert Camus
- A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in…
- Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
- Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the…
- Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so…
- A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
- The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
- It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that,…
- The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every…
- There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each…
- Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
- A work of art is a confession.
- This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.
- Without work all life goes rotten.
- The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
- Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face,…
- ...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I…
- Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
- In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul
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