The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. – Albert Camus
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. – Albert Camus
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – 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