Albert Camus Quotes

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Albert Camus

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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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• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
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• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
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• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
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• Routine is the death to heroism.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People
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• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life
  • Death

• When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

  

  Margaret Atwood
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• When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
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• Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Up
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• I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Death
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• Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Thinking

• I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Good
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• Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Believe
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• I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right.' I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city.

  

  Matt Kemp
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• I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
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• I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Thinking
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  • Roles

• You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

  

  Pope John Paul II

• Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Habit