Quote by Albert Camus
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith,

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. – Albert Camus

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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. – Albert Camus

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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. – Albert Camus

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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. – Albert Camus

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When the tide of life turns against you
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. – Joseph Conrad

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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. – Benjamin Disraeli

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