For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Albert Camus Quote

Albert Camus

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4819 “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
5171 “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
4341 “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
4654 “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
3011 You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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