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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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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I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
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'Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.'
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.