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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. – Albert Camus

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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. – Albert Camus

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Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called progressives should be thanking him for it – even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. – John Podhoretz

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire

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History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures

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