Quote by Albert Camus
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. – Albert Camus

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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. – Albert Camus

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World
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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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finance
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. – Albert Camus

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Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. – Scottish Proverb

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I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there. – Viorica Butnariu

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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. – Edmund Burke

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Revolution

The dead have been awakened — shall I sleep? The worlds at war with tyrants — shall I crouch? the harvests ripe — and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future. – J. G. Ballard

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We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. – Andrew Weil

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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I dont go out and party. I dont smoke, drink or do drugs and Im not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work. – Henry Rollins

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