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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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7 years, 6 months ago

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 Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays 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
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paid for with unjust deaths

Nothing is given to men, and the little they can conquer is paid for with unjust deaths. But a man's greatness lies elsewhere. It lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition. And if his condition is unjust, he has only one way of overcoming it, which is to be just himself. [...]

—p.39 The Night of Truth (38) by Albert Camus
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in the cool of the evening

But what you did was necessary, and we went down in history. And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. [...]

—p.29 Letters to a German Friend (1) by Albert Camus
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no ultimate meaning

For a long time we both thought that this world had no ultimate meaning and that consequently we were cheated. I still think so in a way. [...]

You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalent and that good and evil could be defin…

—p.27 Letters to a German Friend (1) by Albert Camus