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" Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. "
Albert Camus
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" Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. "
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" No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. "
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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 man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. "
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" It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. "
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" Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. "
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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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" What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. "
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" Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. "
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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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" Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself. "
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" The society based on production is only productive, not creative. "
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" Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. "
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" All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. "
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" Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. "
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" Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. "
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" Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. "
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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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