"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
-Albert Camus
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"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.“
-Albert Camus
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."
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"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."
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"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
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