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Quote by Albert Camus
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confessio

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. – Albert Camus

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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. – Albert Camus

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Certainty
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Albert Camus
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. – Albert Camus

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Beauty
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Albert Camus
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different. – Jack Nicholson

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist. – Edgar Allan Poe

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The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. – Emmet Fox

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Poor Georgia OKeeffe. Death didnt soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. – Jerry Saltz

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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. – Frederick William Faber

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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if youre rehearsing, youre working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When youre doing the play, you have all day. – Maggie Gyllenhaal

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. – Jean Rostand

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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. – Vladimir Nabokov

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