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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. – Albert Camus

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Discovery
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Albert Camus
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. – Albert Camus

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Death
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We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others. – Albert Camus

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Perfection
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. – David Ormsby Gore

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Humankind

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. – William Ralph Inge

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Humankind

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. – Alexander Hamilton

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Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. – Ambrose Bierce

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God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas. – Ralph Hodgson

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Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. – Louis Kahn

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