Albert Camus Quotes
Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
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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.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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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.
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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.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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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.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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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.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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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.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.
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Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.
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I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
