Quote by Albert Camus
A mans work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through t

A mans work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. – Albert Camus

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. – Albert Camus

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Death
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasnt everything. – Albert Camus

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History
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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History
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They tell you that the great painters mixed blood with their pigments. It is not true; the compound used was brains. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Art

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. – Clara Schumann

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Art

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana

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Art

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash. – Terri Guillemets

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Art

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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. – Julia Child

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Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still dont think I do. I write stories about women. – Lisa Scottoline

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legal

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

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Justice & Law

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. – Thomas Huxley

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power