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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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defending freedom

[...] The first way is characteristic of bourgeois intellectuals who are willing that their privileges should be paid for by the enslavement of workers. They often say that they are defending freedom, but they are defending first of all the privileges freedom gives to them, and to them alone. [...]

—p.95 Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays Bread and Freedom (87) by Albert Camus
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bourgeois freedom

When, after Marx, the rumor began to spread and gain strength that freedom was a bourgeois hoax, a single word was misplaced in that definition, and we are still paying for that mistake through the convulsions of our time. For it should have been said merely that bourgeois freedom was a hoax—and no…

—p.90 Bread and Freedom (87) by Albert Camus
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when that man shares your ideas

[...] But it seems to me that there is another ambition that ought to belong to all writers: to bear witness and shout aloud, every time it is possible, insofar as our talent allows, for those who are enslaved as we are. That is the very ambition you questioned in your article, I shall consistently…

—p.83 Why Spain? (75) by Albert Camus
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the virtues of the totalitarians

[...] For you are willing to keep silent about one reign of terror in order the better to combat another one. There are some of us who do not want to keep silent about anything. It is our whole political society that nauseates us. Hence there will be no salvation until all those who are still worth…

—p.82 Why Spain? (75) by Albert Camus
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a lay pharisee

To me a lay pharisee is the person who pretends to believe that Christianity is an easy thing and asks of the Christian, on the basis of an external view of Christianity, more than he asks of himself. I believe indeed that the Christian has many obligations but that it is not up to the man who reje…

—p.69 The Unbeliever and Christians (67) by Albert Camus