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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You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.
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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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To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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A work of art is a confession.
