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Quote by Albert Camus
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. – Albert Camus

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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. – 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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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves. – Albert Camus

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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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