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" Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. "
Albert Camus
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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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" Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. "
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" There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. "
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" Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. "
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" In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. "
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" Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. "
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" Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? "
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" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "
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" To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. "
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" All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. "
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" Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. "
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" What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. "
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" How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "
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" I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. "
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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 need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. "
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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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