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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

Other quotes by Albert Camus

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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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. – Albert Camus

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power
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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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Other Quotes from
Humankind
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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Thus Spake Zarathustra, translated by M.A

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Humankind

Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Humankind

Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe. – Mihai Eminescu, translated by Oana Platon

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Humankind

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Humankind

Random Quotes

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. – Jos

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Ordinary

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. – Oliver W. Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

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Sanity

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter. – Bat Masterson

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How True!

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season. – Valentino Rossi

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car