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Albert Camus

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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write
ROBERT PENN WARREN Those who can, drive; those who can't, write.
AMEN ZWA, ESQ. Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs.
FRANK HARTE Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
A. LEE MARTINEZ Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write l...
ITALO CALVINO Those who chant are sanctified. All those who listen are blessed, and those who write save their anc...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interest...
JOHN LEONARD Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write the...
LLOYD ALEXANDER It is easier to write on money than to obtain it, and those who gain it, jest much at those who only...
VOLTAIRE There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him...
RICHARD USBORNE Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.
PAUL SAMUELSON Write like you have many readers.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each ot...
TEJU COLE Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUD One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE The illiterate of the future are not those who can't read or write but those who cannot learn, unlea...
ALVIN TOFFLER He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot...
ALVIN TOFFLER The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot...
ALVIN TOFFLER Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
JOHN MILTON Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does c...
GERTRUDE STEIN Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
JOSS WHEDON I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.
VIKRANT PARSAI We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too...
MALCOLM GLADWELL There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are thos...
JOHN M. FORD Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their...
BLAISE PASCAL We have also had success with those wanting to write non-fiction. Our latest success is Laura Boon, ...
AMANDA PATTERSON A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
ALICE MCDERMOTT Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.
DANIEL PINKWATER The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
ALBERT CAMUS I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS In the last five years, lyrics have resembled diaries of those who write them. I think the fans like...
JERMAINE DUPRI I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who ...
SYLVIA PLATH There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Delta's surcharge was clearly discriminatory against travelers who preferred using travel agents and...
JOE GALLOWAY Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more ...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF those who have health have hope, those who have hope have everything
ADAM BAKER Those who understand others are intelligent. Those who understand themselves are enlightened. Those ...
LAO TZU There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make th...
EDWARD P. JONES I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and c...
LIBBA BRAY BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters --the most difficult kind of English verse to write acce...
AMBROSE BIERCE Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried ...
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ALBERT CAMUS We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
ALBERT CAMUS It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. I...
ALBERT CAMUS ترجیح میدهم طوری زندگی کنم که گویی خدا هست و وقتی مُردم ...
ALBERT CAMUS Any man who will look into his heart and honestly write what he sees there, will find plenty of read...
EDGAR WATSON HOWE I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers wh...
JEFFREY BERNARD I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can wr...
A. J. LIEBLING Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
LAO TZU When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who...
JENNIFER DONNELLY I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so ter...
AUDRE LORDE The men who make history have not time to write it.
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH The men who make history have not time to write it.
METTERNICH The men who make history have not time to write it
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH Those who have they give, those who need they get
MATTI MATTILA I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the w...
NATAN SHARANSKY It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
HELEN KELLER write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I write for those who desire, not publication at any cost, but publication one can be proud of--seri...
JOHN GARDNER I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.
JOSS STONE I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd her...
NICHOLAS TRANDAHL Those who do not have will always serve those who do.
JACOB TOMSKY Players can be divided, roughly, into four types. Those who have ability and know it, those who have...
PAUL BRYANT Those who respect others have a self respect. Respect those who have a self respect.
EPHDAN ...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for...
KATHERINE PATERSON Human nature is so complicated. Those who have little, want a lot. Those who have a lot, think other...
ERALDO BANOVAC Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
LAO TZU Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct
SAMUEL JOHNSON Clearly, we want the refugees to be able to go back quickly. Those NATO governments who have agreed ...
JAMIE SHEA The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON taking the most from those who have the least and nothing from those who have the most.
CHET EDWARDS Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
HENRY ROLLINS I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
WALT WHITMAN Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.
MARK TWAIN Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A fleeting second on someone's news feed,
No dearth of meanings for those who read,
Not my...
SANHITA BARUAH We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
CHARLES CALEB COLTON All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are...
ERIC CLAPTON I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de...
CHAMFORT Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for tho...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ah ! cher ami, que les hommes sont pauvres en invention. Ils croient toujours qu'on se suicide pour ...
ALBERT CAMUS He who thinks that he is finished is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, hav...
HENRI NOUWEN Those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
J.K. ROWLING Those who ask ''when will your project be finished'' have clearly never started a project to know ho...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Those who meet objections to their forcing their religion on others with cries of 'Show respect!' cl...
CHRISTINA ENGELA In share market, those who have money are given more and those who don't have are deprived of whatev...
DR HITESH C SHETH History -- its what those bitter old men write.
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to ...
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ALBERT CAMUS But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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ALBERT CAMUS Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
ALBERT CAMUS The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
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ALBERT CAMUS I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew...
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ALBERT CAMUS How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
ALBERT CAMUS Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
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ALBERT CAMUS To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the c...
ALBERT CAMUS When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
ALBERT CAMUS All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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ALBERT CAMUS We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
ALBERT CAMUS Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
ALBERT CAMUS Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
ALBERT CAMUS Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
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ALBERT CAMUS Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Excep...
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ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
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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.
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ALBERT CAMUS You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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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.
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ALBERT CAMUS Integrity has no need of rules.
ALBERT CAMUS 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.
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ALBERT CAMUS The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his t...
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ALBERT CAMUS Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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ALBERT CAMUS People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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ALBERT CAMUS My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury...
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ALBERT CAMUS What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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ALBERT CAMUS To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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ALBERT CAMUS Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all othe...
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ALBERT CAMUS Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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ALBERT CAMUS Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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ALBERT CAMUS God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
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ALBERT CAMUS The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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ALBERT CAMUS Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an ac...
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ALBERT CAMUS To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not t...
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ALBERT CAMUS Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
ALBERT CAMUS We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
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ALBERT CAMUS At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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ALBERT CAMUS Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forge...
ALBERT CAMUS He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
ALBERT CAMUS How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spa...
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no
ALBERT CAMUS Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
ALBERT CAMUS When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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