Albert Camus Quotes
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.
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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
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It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say
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Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
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The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?
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I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
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But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
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The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.
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I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.
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I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
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The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
