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Quote by Albert Camus
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. – Albert Camus

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