He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me. Albert Camus
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  2. Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

  3. 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.

  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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