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«After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
deaths, dreadful, murderer, promotion, promotions
«At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clothed, denseness, henceforth, hills, illusory, inhuman, outline, outlines, Outlining, Paradise Lost, remote, strangeness
«And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
formidable, gamble, henceforth, honorable, munitions, stake
«Murder is terribly exhausting.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Murder
| Keywords:
exhausting, murder, terribly
«To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
adoration, insure, insured, insures, insuring, length, police, police force, theorem, theorems
«Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Charity,
Generosity
| Keywords:
dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, generosity
«For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
accompanied, barbarous, claims, death instinct, death penalty, equilibrium, instincts, in check, penalty, refinements, warring, war crime
«I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one's feet are dirty. None the less, style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
addiction, eczema, hides, imply, sheer, silk, underwear, well aware
«From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.»
«There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Suicide
| Keywords:
philosophical, philosophical problem
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