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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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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. – Albert Camus

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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. – Albert Camus

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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. – Albert Camus

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Death, the final, triumphant lover. – Bela Lugosi

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…? – Adrienne Rich

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. – Mark Twain

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Death Valley is really wide-open – its bigger than Rhode Island – and its less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so theres lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on. – Gus Van Sant

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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise ones neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. – Aleister Crowley

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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. – Anne Bronte

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