My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.


Albert Finney

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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
ALBERT CAMUS
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
ALBERT CAMUS
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
ALBERT CAMUS
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
ALBERT CAMUS
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
ALBERT CAMUS
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in ...
ALBERT CAMUS
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
ALBERT CAMUS
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyph...
ALBERT CAMUS
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the comm...
ALBERT CAMUS
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. ...
ALBERT CAMUS
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
ALBERT CAMUS
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
ALBERT CAMUS
Integrity has no need of rules.
ALBERT CAMUS
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occa...
MARV ALBERT
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
ALBERT CAMUS
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
ALBERT CAMUS
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
ALBERT CAMUS
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that...
ALBERT CAMUS
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
ALBERT EINSTEIN
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
ALBERT ELLIS
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more dire...
ALBERT ELLIS
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equa...
ALBERT ELLIS
Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about...
ALBERT ELLIS
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that&#...
ALBERT ELLIS
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone lo...
ALBERT ELLIS
I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with who...
ALBERT ELLIS
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
ALBERT ELLIS
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and tha...
ALBERT ELLIS
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
ALBERT ELLIS
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
ALBERT ELLIS
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
ALBERT ELLIS
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every c...
ALBERT ELLIS
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
ALBERT ELLIS
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
ALBERT ELLIS
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must ...
ALBERT ELLIS