Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, thr…

Albert Camus
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. ✨ Pretensions: Adieu, Adieu, Albert Camus by Joe Queenan, reason.com. March 1990.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. ✨ Albert Camus (2012). The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, p.157, Vintage
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images. ✨ Albert Camus (2012). Lyrical and Critical Essays, p.199, Vintage

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. ✨ Pretensions: Adieu, Adieu, Albert Camus by Joe Queenan, reason.com. March 1990.

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