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Albert Camus
“if there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.” Albert Camus, The Plague
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has...” Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
Emily Brontë
“I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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