Quote by Albert Camus
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous re

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. – Albert Camus

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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. – Albert Camus

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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. – Albert Camus

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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. – Albert Camus

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Everybody is entertained to death. – Brian Eno

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He who doesnt fear death dies only once. – Giovanni Falcone

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Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast. – Bob Dylan

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