Albert Camus Quotes

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

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• I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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• I prefer doing feature films.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
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• I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
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• As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

  

  Maya Angelou
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• ... Sometimes, we try to stifle that fact or hide it, ... But the profound, and ultimately most important, reality is that we are not only citizens of this blessed country, we are citizens of the same awesome God.

  

  Joe Lieberman
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• The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  

  e. e. cummings
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• One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
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• It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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• Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

  

  Michel Foucault
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• My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Belief
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• Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

  

  Bette Davis
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• In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.

  

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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• I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Love
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  • Fill

• A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

  

  Albert Camus
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