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Quote by Albert Camus
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to h

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man. – Albert Camus

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. – Albert Camus

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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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My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. – Henry Rollins

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In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. – Daniel L. Reardon

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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. – Francis H. Bradley

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Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim

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