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Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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El conquistador no busca la unidad, sino la totalidad, lo que significa el aplastamiento de las diferencias

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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We thought that happiness is the greatest of conquests, the one we achieve against the destiny imposed on us. Not even in defeat did that longing abandon us.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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There is one thing that is always desired and is sometimes obtained: human tenderness.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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Even, in some cases, to continue, simply to continue, becomes superhuman.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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Brutal physical desire is easy. But desire at the same time as tenderness takes time. It is necessary to traverse the entire region of love before finding the flame of desire.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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The one who kills or tortures only knows a shadow in their victory: they cannot feel innocent. Therefore, they need to create guilt in the victim.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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I thought that this world without love is a dead world, and that there comes a moment when one grows tired of the prison, work, and courage, and demands nothing more than the face of a being and the spell of tenderness in the heart.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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Because friendship is the science of free men. And there is no freedom without intelligence and mutual understanding.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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He was aware of how sterile a life without illusions is. There is no peace without hope.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends up desiring royalty.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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We always have an exaggerated idea of what we do not know.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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Who could claim that an eternity of happiness can compensate for an instant of human pain?