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Quote by Albert Camus
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, an

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. – 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

Category:
Death
Author
Albert Camus
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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds — a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career. – Albert Camus

Category:
Twentieth Century
Author
Albert Camus
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. – Ben Elton

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World

He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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World

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. – Martin Buber

Category:
World

If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle. – Rita Mae Brown

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World

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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. – Chevy Chase

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There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy. – Annie Leibovitz

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communication

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, Is it? Why? Why is it like that? Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. – Alice Englert

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Education

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color. – Pete Townshend

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Music