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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

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. – Albert Camus

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Death
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Albert Camus
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. – Albert Camus

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Beauty
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Albert Camus
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We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? – Robert Penn Warren, Segregation

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History

I normally ignore the History Channel. – Diablo Cody

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History

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. – Paul Harris

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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. – Richard M. Nixon

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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. – Charlie Chaplin

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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. – Jim Henson

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