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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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. – Albert Camus

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Nature
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. – Albert Camus

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Love
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. – Albert Camus

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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. – Desmond Tutu

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Ive had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. Ive been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I dont get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best. – John Grisham

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I hope for peace and sanity – its the same thing. – Studs Terkel

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Its a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year its getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon. – Marat Safin

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Im not a screamer. Im confrontational, but I dont think that translates into anger. – Rachel Maddow

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Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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There’s a beach whose waves lap near an ancient grove of redwoods—during a full moon, it throws up wishing shells. Let them lie, he told me. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds for us – must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. – Stanislav Grof

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