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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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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It is normal to give away a little of ones life in order not to lose it all. – Albert Camus

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[T]he Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. – Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics

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History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance. – R. Jackson Wilson

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History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. – Rosa Luxemburg

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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem. – Pat Robertson

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