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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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. – Albert Camus

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Revolution
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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. – Albert Camus

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Friendship
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

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Happiness
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Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. – William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXVI”

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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. – Drew Barrymore

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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. – Malagasy Proverb

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There is no limit to the power of loving. – John Morton

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A relationship will eventually turn love inside out. And the test is whether you can love from both sides. – Terri Guillemets, “The next day,” 1989

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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. – William Shakespeare

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I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace. – Richard Cobden

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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. – Henri Bergson

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