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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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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. – Albert Camus

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good
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Albert Camus
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. – Albert Camus

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Sound, Noise
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Albert Camus
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Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. – William Winwood Reade

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Humankind

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Humankind

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. – Gustave Flaubert

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Humankind

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. – Stephen Hawking

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Humankind

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I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated “all my homosexual patients are quite sick” — to which I finally replied “so are all my heterosexual patients.” – Ernest van den Haag (1914–2002)

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Homosexuality

The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the males superiority. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Society

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry. – Norman Wisdom

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funny