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Quote by Albert Camus
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ours

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. – Albert Camus

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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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Twentieth Century
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. – Albert Camus

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War
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I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers. – Albert Camus

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Humankind
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. – Sigmund Freud

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