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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I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."
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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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The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.
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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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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 lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.
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The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
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Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
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A work of art is a confession.
