Albert Camus Quotes

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
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'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
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I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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Perfection is a disease of a nation.
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The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
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I couldn't imagine a better place Australia for making a film on the end of the world.
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There is no other country which harms its own interests this much
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Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America. The UK and the US have shared challenges, shared interests, that we can work together to deal with. We have a special relationship, it's longstanding, it's existed through many different prime ministers and presidents. I want to build on that relationship.
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I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.