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“Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder blue; every color harbors its own soul, delighting or disgusting or stimulating me.”

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Emil Nolde

German Expressionist painter known for his unique use of color and abstract expression. Emil Nolde's works were deeply influenced by symbolism and mysticism, often carrying strong emotional and symbolic meanings. more

“Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.”

Thinking Men Trying Humans Country Suffering Speak Heard Goodness Breaths Contact Priests Scholar Assurance Plague Deathbed Human Suffering

Book:Nobel Prize Library

Source: Nobel Prize Library

“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.”

Men Position Philosophical Constant Confrontation Obscurity Revolt

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.”

Source: The plague: translated from the French

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