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" Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. "

Albert Camus

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" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "

" What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. "

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Beautiful

Light

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Fear

Than

" We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. "

" Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. "

" When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. "

" I know of only one duty, and that is to love. "

" Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. "

" What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. "

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" Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. "

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