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Quote by Albert Camus
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. – Albert Camus

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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. – Albert Camus

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Revolution
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To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? – Albert Camus

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Hurt, Injury
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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. – Henry S. Haskins

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Miscellaneous

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. – Pierre Tielhard de Chardin

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He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. – Ring Lardner

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Musics staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. – Gary Wright

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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. – Winston Churchill

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The last time somebody said, I find I can write much better with a word processor., I replied, They used to say the same thing about drugs. – Roy Blount, Jr.

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Drugs