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Quote by Albert Camus
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. – Albert Camus

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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. – Albert Camus

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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future –and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. – Albert Camus

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For what is history, but… huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. – Washington Irving, History of New York

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The Communist regime didnt consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. – Kathryn Bigelow

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Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. – Ray Manzarek

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant

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There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. – Jane Jacobs

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. – T. S. Eliot

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