Albert Camus Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
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The 1963 Corvair, which has some remarkable characteristics. It's one of the few cars I know that can do the bossa nova on dry pavement and the watusi on wet.
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I don't party, I don't get drunk and I don't have affairs. So all my passion goes into my work.
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All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
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Then twangling their bibles with wrath in their nostrilsFrom Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake:'Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen;Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake.'
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Sé que tienes nada. Por ello te pido todo. Para que tengas todo.
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My animals are a really important part of my life.
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I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.'
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.
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When love is our guiding light, we can break through barriers to be of loving service to the world. Gaining the courage and confidence to stand up for what you believe in is not always easy, but it's fully within your reach.
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If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
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My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character as an author, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
