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Quote by Albert Camus
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malign

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds — a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career. – Albert Camus

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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus

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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. – Albert Camus

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Dont believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. – Albert Camus

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The fifties — they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasnt the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. – John Lennon

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The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded. – Ernest Hemingway

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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. – Albert Camus

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