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.
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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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There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It's bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use.
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From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.
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Although I think I'm relatively happy as a person, I think there's something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I'd say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that's particularly original, other than that we're going to live and die, and terrible things happen.
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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.
