Albert Camus Quotes
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
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I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.
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I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers.
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All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.
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He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time.
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.
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And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
