Albert Camus Quotes
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
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I thought I needed to go to one of the top five schools in the nation and never even thought 'What's important to me?' Instead of figuring out what was important, which was obviously being near home, I kind of just went with what everyone thought I should do.
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What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
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Where there is no math, there is no freedom.
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I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
