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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Our voices need to be raised in unison against the deterioration of our culture.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake. So I will close with another confession. Frequently, along the tortuous road of recent months from this chamber to the Presidents House, I protested that I was my own man. Now I realize that I was wrong. I am your man, for it was your carefully weighed confirmation that changed my occupation. The truth is I am the peoples man, for you acted in their name, and I accepted and began my new and solemn trust with a promise to serve all the people and do the best that I can for America.
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A work of art is a confession.
