[E]very time it seems to be that I've grasped the deep meaning of the
world, it is its simplicity that always overwhelms me.
-- Albert Camus. "Between Yes and No" (1937) from The Wrong
Side and the Right Side, reprinted in Lyrical
and Critical Essays, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy, NY: Knopf
(1968).
Yes, everything is simple. It's men who complicate things. Don't let
them tell us any stories. Don't let them say about the man condemned to
death: "He is going to pay his debt to scoiety," but: "They're going
to chop his head off." It may seem like nothing. But it does make a little
difference.
-- Albert Camus. "Between Yes and No" (1937) from The Wrong
Side and the Right Side, reprinted in Lyrical
and Critical Essays, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy, NY: Knopf
(1968).
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the
detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose
presence his heart first opened.
-- Albert Camus. "Preface" (1958) to The Wrong
Side and the Right Side (1937), reprinted in Lyrical
and Critical Essays, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy, NY: Knopf
(1968).