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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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. – Albert Camus

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good
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future –and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. – Albert Camus

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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. – Albert Camus

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Death
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Im not afraid to die, I just dont want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. – George Bernard Shaw

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The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people. – Stanislav Grof

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When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know its going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly. – John Hodgman

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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. – Joseph Conrad

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One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. – Ingrid Newkirk

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To accuse others for ones own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that ones education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that ones education is complete. – Epictetus

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