It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can tea…

Albert Camus
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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore. ✨ Albert Camus (2012). The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, p.73, Vintage
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