Quote by Albert Camus
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ra

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others. – Albert Camus

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. – Albert Camus

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Intelligence
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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. – Albert Camus

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Freedom
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. – Albert Camus

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Every time, all the time, Im a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose. – Chris Evert

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A good garden may have some weeds. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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I dont like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them. – English Proverb

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. – Proverb

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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