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Quote by Albert Camus

“All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.”

Quote by Albert Camus

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Albert Camus was a French author and philosopher, born on November 7, 1913, and died on January 4, 1960. Known for his unique existentialist philosophy and profound insights into human suffering, Camus' works include 'The Stranger', 'The Plague', and 'The Myth of Sisyphus', which have had a profound impact on 20th-century literature. more

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“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”

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Book:The Selected Poems of William Blake

Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake

“As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.”

“Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.”

World Desire Universe Understanding Share Broken Findings Lonely Terror Kingdoms Isolation Rulers Say Anything Penetrate Understand Me

Author:Anais Nin

“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”

Ifs Feels Fall Despair Falling In Love Existentialism

Author:Albert Camus

“Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.”

Writing Together Bits Half Heard Wind Sentences Finished Ribbons Fluttering

Author:Lauren Oliver

“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.”

Firsts May Doe Duty Intellect Conclusion Thinker Great Thinkers

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.”

Sleep Enemy Teacher Fields Posts Going To Sleep Learners

Book:Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

Source: Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

“Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.”

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Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.”

Source: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.”

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Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus