Albert Camus Quotes
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Quotes to Explore
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.
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Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.
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You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.
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English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!
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I don't go to parties in general.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
