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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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishes.
But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
is what the heart needs.
The earth must have risen in just such a light
the morning the world was born. – Albert Camus

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Creation
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isnt, than live my life as if there isnt and die to find out there is. – Albert Camus

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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. – Albert Camus

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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. – George Santayana

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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after Johns death. – Paul McCartney

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Death

As long as you dont make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But thats condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead. – Jeanne Moreau

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Im not afraid of death, but Im in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. – Stephen Hawking

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Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. – John Dryden

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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free. – George Berkeley

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Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown. – Emile M. Cioran

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Only God can look at somebodys heart. – Joel Osteen

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