QuoteQuest“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Albert Camus
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
"Helen's Exile" (1948)
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Camus, Albert. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Albert Camus. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus
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