Albert Camus Quotes

We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

Albert Camus

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• Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Government
  • Greek
  • Debate

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Horrible
  • Awake
  • Bathroom

• I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Black

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • People
  • Leave
  • Watch

• I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Desire

• So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Life
  • Identity

• Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Connection

• Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Women
  • Power

• Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Religious
  • Spring
  • Easter

• I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • School
  • Done
  • Art

• I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

  

  Neil Cavuto

• For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Attention

• Rural voters believed the Democrats traded millions in campaign cash at their expense. Along came a guy named Trump to give these voters a political voice.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Guy
  • Political
  • Trump

• I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Time
  • Believe

• Here today we huddle tightAs the darkest heathens mightThe snow falls chilly on our skinThe snow is forcing its way in.Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell:We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Today
  • Heaven
  • Snow

• Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.

  

  Bernhard von Bulow
  • Power
  • Free
  • Strong

• Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Real
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• People say to me, 'What are you going to be doing in five years?' The thing is, I don't care! It's what I'm doing today that matters.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • People
  • Today

• We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

  

  Albert Camus
  • Poetry
  • Risk
  • Solution