Albert Camus Quotes
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None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
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Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.
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Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
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So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.
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In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
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Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
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Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ’s modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you—it should.
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When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.
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I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.
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A work of art is a confession.
