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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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A mans work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. – Albert Camus

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. – John Keats

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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden youre free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. – Saul Alinsky

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Death comes in a flash, and thats the truth of it, the persons gone in less than 24 frames of film. – Martin Scorsese

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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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