Quote by Albert Camus
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. – Albert Camus

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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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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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Nature abhors annihilation. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. – Rupert Brooke

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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal. – Xun Zi

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What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know whats going on. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. – Bodhidharma

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The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good. – Ivan Scheier

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe

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