Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
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There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved and not the reverse.Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. Its a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
Albert Camus
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
Albert Camus
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert Camus
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