Albert Camus Quotes
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Albert Camus
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
Saint-John Perse
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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
Ramana Maharshi
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
Adam Gopnik
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
Carla Bruni
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For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
Barbara Boxer
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Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it -- don't let them do it.
Garrison Keillor
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For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
Leonardo da Vinci
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You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
Debbie Reynolds
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You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.
Paul Haggis
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Albert Camus
