Albert Camus Quotes

Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.

Albert Camus

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• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Black
  • Intellectual
  • Clear

• Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Morality

• You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Change
  • Care
  • Gender

• I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Sleep

• I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Equality
  • Disease

• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Father
  • Death

• I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

  

  Edmund White
  • Game
  • Want
  • Challenge

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Healthy
  • Prelude

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Happy
  • Black
  • Gay

• Television shows, especially hour-longs, are hard, tiring work. Those people are very tired and very rich. But they're working really hard, and to create the illusion of having the time of your life like that, you really got to give it up to the people who do it.

  

  Craig Bierko
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Long
  • Earth

• I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works. I mean, a lot of the kids I know are really politically involved. They really care about politics. I think we're going to have an incredible impact on how politics end up shaking this country.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Reality