The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; Albert Camus
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  2. Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

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  4. What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

  5. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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