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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. – Albert Camus

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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasnt everything. – Albert Camus

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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. – Thomas Mann

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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. – Alice Walker

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