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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. – Albert Camus

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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a mans heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. – Albert Camus

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

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We stand today on the edge of a new frontier — the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all thats going on right now in a big way. – Bob Dylan

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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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