"No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people."
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"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."
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"There are more things to admire in men than to despise."
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"There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change."
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"Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring."
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"Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil."
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"There is always a philosophy for lack of courage."
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"The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable."
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"The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits."
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"I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves."
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"From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question."
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"Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty."
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"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm."
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"It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us."
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"The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think."
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"O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."
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"Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated."
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"God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves."
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"This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."
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"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously."
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