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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Cannot Definition Instinct Law Nature Obey Related Retaliation Rules Same

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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Like Painting Paintings Your

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No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Attacks Blind Cause Crowds Defends Disgrace Innocent Innocent People Matter People Permanent Suffer Will

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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

Topics: Accompanied Because Been Centuries Check Claims Constant Crime Death Death Penalty Equilibrium Forces Hold Instincts Law Man Often Penalty Persists State Trying Why

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Beginning Born Corner Deeds Door Great Often Restaurant Revolving Ridiculous Street Thoughts Works

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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Ends Friendship Love Never Often

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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Artist Artists Away Beauty Between Cannot Community He Himself Judge Midway Nothing Obliged Others Rather Scorn Tear Than True Understand Why Without

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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

~Albert Camus

Topics: About Against Common Death Desire Know Necessity Order Rains Reality Sea Speak Struggle Things Unite Us

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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Announce Brings Clouds Inevitably Myth Production Storm Train Unlimited War

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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Conscience Definition Government More Nothing Policy Sometimes

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 7th, 1913

Died: January 4th, 1960

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