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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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.
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The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!
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Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
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I don't know a single woman in her 40s who isn't incredibly full of life and sexuality and desire for everything. There's nothing sexier than life experience, and there's nothing sexier than knowing your own body and having a little bit of experience with that.
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Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
