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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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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. – Albert Camus

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When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives. – Albert Camus

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