Albert Camus Quotes

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
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I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.
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I had plenty of LSD, but why take it. I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. It was going to show me that garden again and then I was going to be cast out and that was it.
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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
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People say, 'You look so great for your age,' and I say, 'OK, you can leave off the 'for your age' part. Can we all stop qualifying it?'
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I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go', and I went.
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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.
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Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
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I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.