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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Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.
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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
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…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.
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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.