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" Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. "
Albert Camus
Opinion
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" In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. "
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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 role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. "
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" I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. "
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" A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. "
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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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" Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. "
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