Albert Camus Quotes

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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I'm never satisfied.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.
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Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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Within your magic web of hair, lies furledThe fire and splendour of the ancient world;The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;The songs that turned to gold the evening airWhen all the stars of heaven sang for joy.
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When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.
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Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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A bunch of my fans have come up to me and said, 'Because of you, and because you came out, I have finally begun to accept myself.' That is infinitely incredible for me. I didn't expect to get to the point where I would own up to it within myself.
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When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.
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I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.