Albert Camus Quotes
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
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The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.
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A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
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I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.
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I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.
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We can tell the general public that the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank are not designed to finance the economy, but rather to ensure foreign trade turnover. Therefore, we need this level to be able to provide the necessary foreign trade turnover for such an economy as Russia's for a period of at least three months.
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We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.
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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
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One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.
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Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.
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To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
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As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.
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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
