Albert Camus Quotes

The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. 'Everything is permitted' does not mean that nothing is forbidden.

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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.
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He knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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As quoted in Zirkle, Conway (1935), The beginnings of plant hybridization p. 105
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Of course I worry about whitewashing, and I feel very strongly that whitewashing was, is, and continues to be a problem in entertainment.
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I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as professionals, both as players and also in our coaching.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.
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The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. 'Everything is permitted' does not mean that nothing is forbidden.