We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective ris…

Albert Camus
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We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.' ✨ Albert Camus (2012). The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, p.97, Vintage
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