If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction …

Albert Camus
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation. ✨ Albert Camus (2012). The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, p.44, Vintage
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