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• A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
  -- Albert Camus (1913-1960) -- Notebooks I (1935-42)...
• Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. -- Albert Camu
• INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
  "All men are ingrates," sneered the cynic. "Nay," The good philanthropist replied...
• In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
  -- Albert Camus, _The Notebooks_...
• He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.
  -- Albert Camu...
• He did not mean to be cruel. If anybody had called him so, he would have resented it extremely.
  He would have said that what he did was done entirely for the good of the country....
• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.
  He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice....
• Captain of the Exxon Valdez to Third Mate: "I said SCOTCH on the rocks, not STOP on the rocks!
  The only thing that remained loaded on the Valdez was the captain....
• I was taking a course with Lionel Trilling and wrote a paper for him with an opening sentence that contained a parenthesis.
  He returned the paper with a wounding reprimand: "Never, never begin an essay with a parenthesis in the first sentence....