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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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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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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. – Albert Camus

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When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives. – Albert Camus

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Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. – Pope John Paul II

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