A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the …

Albert Camus
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A man's 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 (2012). Lyrical and Critical Essays, p.17, Vintage
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