"An artist can succeed or fail in his work, that is, he can win or lose his life. However, if he can say at the end of his effort that he managed to alleviate or reduce all the burdens that weigh on people, then he is, to a large extent, justified, and can, to a certain extent, forgive himself".
(Excerpt from Camus' Speech at the Swedish Academy during the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957)