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!
Albert Camus
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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!'
Vivienne Westwood
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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.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Lao Tzu
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I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
Blaise Pascal
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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
Honore de Balzac
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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
Charles Dickens
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.
Charlotte Bronte
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If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.
Al-Mutanabbi
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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!
Albert Camus