Albert Camus Quotes

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Albert Camus

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• Possession
• Sterilize

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• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

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• The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

  

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• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

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• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

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• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

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• Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.

  

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• The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.

  

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• That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.

  

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• I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

  

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• People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.

  

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• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

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• Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.

  

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  • Tree
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• We all know that a good example is more effective than advice. So set a good example, and it won't take long for others to follow.

  

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• I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

  

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• It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that out, they see it's RSS-plus. It's literally the place you check for information.

  

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• Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

  

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• I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

  

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• In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we've accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.

  

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• It is difficult to constantly make courageous choices.

  

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• The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Desire
  • Survive
  • Possession