An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

-- Albert Camus

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Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death He is going to pay his debt to society, but: They are going to cut off his head. It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

-- Albert Camus

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

-- Albert Camus

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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

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

-- 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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