Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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If there is a sin against life, it lies perhaps less in despairing of it than in hoping for another and evading the implacable grandeur of the one we have.Albert Camus
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.
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We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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