Albert Camus Quotes
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
Quotes to Explore
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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As my father used to say: 'There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.'
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I just can’t believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can’t believe it.
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Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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We live in a fearful society that has perfected the art of doubting, weaned us on worry, and trained us to focus on everything that can or has gone wrong.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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The ‘total state’ of fascism is not a political alignment within the existing political and social setup, but that it is a revolution which, like all revolutions, works from without.
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If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
