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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

By Albert Camus