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Writing Quotes by Albert Camus
- A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
- To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
- The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to…
- Those who write clearly have readers.
- A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
- The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
- It is immoral not to tell.
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