Albert Camus Quotes

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
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I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
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Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
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'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.
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Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.
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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.