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Quotes from Helen's Exile — Albert Camus

1913–1960 France

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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Helen's Exile (1948)

We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.

Helen's Exile (1948)

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

Helen's Exile (1948)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Camus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.