Albert Camus Quotes
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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I want to serve the people.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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I like to travel by myself.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.
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Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.
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I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.
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Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!
