Quote by Albert Camus
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. – Albert Camus

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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. – Albert Camus

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Revolution
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. – Albert Camus

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good
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I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is, to me, the real spirit of True Harmony. – Carol Alt

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To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment – especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois. – Paul Ryan

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Hope

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. – Robert Capa

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We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end. – William Hague

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

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Poetry

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. – Pope Paul VI

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Life

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. – June Jordan

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respect

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. – Ben Jonson

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Success