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Cities Quotes by Albert Camus
- As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
- In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold…
- Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those…
- Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the…
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- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
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