"An achievement is a bondage. It obliges..." - Quote by Albert Camus
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
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“Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.”
“Those who write clearly have readers.”
“But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.”
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“The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.”
“If you cannot be free be as free as you can.”
“I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.”