Quote by Albert Camus
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. – Albert Camus

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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. – Albert Camus

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. – Charles Baudelaire

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When we ask for love, we dont ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love. – Mortimer Adler

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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see its not an issue of black and white, its an issue of Lovers and Haters. – Eden Ahbez

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