Albert Camus Quotes
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
Quotes to Explore
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
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Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'
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You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
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Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
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The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Decisions are going to have to be made before we know about the state money.
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
