The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. – Albert Camus
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. – Albert Camus
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isnt, than live my life as if there isnt and die to find out there is. – Albert Camus
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. – J. G. Ballard