Albert Camus Quotes

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

Albert Camus

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• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Me
  • Something
  • Hungry

• A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Age
  • Woman
  • Everything

• I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Kids
  • Years
  • Photography

• There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Living
  • Prison
  • Walls

• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

  

  Ira Glass
  • College
  • Talent
  • Class

• My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Why

• When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Heaven

• Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those 'special songs' of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd 'rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.'

  

  Liza Minnelli
  • She
  • Mother
  • Present

• She walks the waters like a thing of life,And seems to dare the elements to strife.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • She

• A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Dream

• Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Sex
  • Nothing
  • Complicated

• The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.

  

  Kadmi Cohen
  • Dying
  • Divine
  • Jew

• Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Want
  • Place
  • Patriotism

• When you’re faced with something you don’t understand, I think the most natural thing but also the least interesting thing you can be is afraid...

  

  Hank Green
  • Natural Thing

• I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Believe
  • Truth

• There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Born