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

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Albert Camus
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. – Albert Camus

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To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge. – Albert Camus, The Rebel, 1951

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Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no. – Jean Anouilh

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield

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