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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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
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We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.
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The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.
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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.
