"Human relationships always help us to carry..." - Quote by Albert Camus
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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“In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.”
“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
“Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland”
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“There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.”
“When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.”
“Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.”
More on Future
“Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.”
“No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ... Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence (and) avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.”
“The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.”