Travel, which is like a greater and graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

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Travel, which is like a greater and graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

-- Albert Camus

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Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day. –

-- Albert Camus

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A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one’s work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

-- Albert Camus

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What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

-- Albert Camus

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The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

-- Albert Camus

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

-- Albert Camus

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