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“Don鈥檛 walk in front of me鈥� I may not follow
Don鈥檛 walk behind me鈥� I may not lead
Walk beside me鈥� just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#3

“Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.”
― 脡mile Durkheim

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#4

“It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.”
― 脡mile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

tags: anthropology, humanity, sociology

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#6

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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#8

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: romance

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#10

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

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#12

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

tags: carpe-diem, future, present

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#18

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

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#20

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: absurd, existentialism, honesty, seeking, truth

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#21

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: existentialism, passion, struggle

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#24

“Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”
― Jeremy Bentham

tags: ethics, happiness, misery, morality, pain, secular-morality

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#26

“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

tags: being, innocence, nostalgia, rebellion, revolt

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#30

“...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”
― Jeremy Bentham

tags: philosophy, utilitarianism

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#33

“The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: cruelty, oppression

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#35

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: be-yourself, beauty, body-image, comfortable, happiness, imperfection, inspirational, life, rare, success, women

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#36

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: crime, freedom, oppression

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#37

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

tags: liberation, oppression, resistance

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#39

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
― Garry Kasparov

tags: disinformation, lies, misinformation, propaganda, thinking, thought, truth

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#41

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#42

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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#45

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#46

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#47

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

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#49

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
― Mark Twain

tags: politics

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#50

“I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.”
― Mark Twain

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#52

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, humor, on-writing, wit, writing

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#53

“The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.”
― Mark Twain

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#54

“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, books-reading

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#55

“Names are not always what they seem.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: names

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#57

“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
― Mark Twain

tags: writing

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