Albert Camus Quotes
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
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I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.
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Complexity. In general individual decision makers must be assumed to have multidimensional values which attach nonmonetary subjective cost or value to (1) the process of making and executing individual or group decisions, (2) the end result of such decisions, and (3) the rewards (and perhaps behavior) of other individuals involved in the decision process.
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Singing into a cold wind is the worst nightmare for any singer. You could hear it in the voice.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.
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We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
