After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension b…

Albert Camus
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After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
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