Albert Camus Quotes

How hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
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There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with things we've heard before, and we take from it what we feel is pertinent and throw away what we feel isn't necessary.
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Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
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The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.
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I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
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Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.
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Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.
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I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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How hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!