Albert Camus Quotes
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
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I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.
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In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.
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I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof.
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Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. … But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
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She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.
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’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.
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O admirable impartiality of Thine, Thou first Mover; Thou hast not permitted that any force should fail of the order or quality of its necessary results.
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We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.
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Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].
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300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
