Albert Camus Quotes
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
Kate Braverman
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By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
Natan Sharansky
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Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.
Patrick Modiano
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To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.
Primo Levi
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You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.
Lillian Russell
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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
Oscar Wilde
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A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.
Beverley Nichols
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But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.
Michel Faber
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I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.
Garry Hynes
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
Zoe McLellan
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It is immoral not to tell.
Albert Camus