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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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a mans heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. – Albert Camus

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Struggle
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Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. – Albert Camus

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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! – Camille Paglia

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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. – Shimon Peres

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There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank. – Will Rogers

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