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" A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "
Albert Camus
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" Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. "
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" Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. "
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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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" For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. "
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" Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. "
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" Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. "
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" We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. "
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" For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. "
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" Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. "
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" Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. "
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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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