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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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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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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus

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Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted. – Drew Deyoung

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An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. – Helen Rowland

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. – Robert Frost

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