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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Albert Camus

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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Dreamss Learning Life Ourself
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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Doubt Fear Life Love Romance Ugly
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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Humanity Love
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Blessing Broken Heart Heart Tears
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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Condition Coward Despair Hope Humanity
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Beautiful Death Life Melancholy
Integrity has no need of rules.
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Integrity One Liner Rules
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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Depth Learning Strength Summer Winter
I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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Beat Head Heart Imagination Moment
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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Crime Logic Passion
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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Beautiful Need Revolution
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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Alive Life Night Sleep Sleeping Stars
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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Hope Invention
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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Desire Honesty One Liner Seek Truth
Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
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Die Life
Live to the point of tears.
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Life Live One Liner Tears

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