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 free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. – 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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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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Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I dont know how. – Gloria Swanson

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