Quote by Albert Camus
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in histo

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

Other quotes by Albert Camus

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. – Albert Camus

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Life
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. – Albert Camus

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Certainty
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. – Albert Camus

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Idealism
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Other Quotes from
History
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[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. – Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History

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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates

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History

Human history in essence is the history of ideas. – H. G. Wells

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History

You dont hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. – Stephen Ambrose

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History

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By making a comeback, Im changing the attitude of people toward me. If Id known that people would react so enthusiastically, Id have done it years ago. – Mark Spitz

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