Quote by Albert Camus
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. – Albert Camus

Other quotes by Albert Camus

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. – Albert Camus

Category:
Ideology
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A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus

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Censorship
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When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives. – Albert Camus

Category:
Mankind, Man
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Hope
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Ive had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. Ive been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I dont get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best. – John Grisham

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Hope

Im terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever Im out partying I just cant be bothered and now I am on Loose Women that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me. – Carol Vorderman

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Hope

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly. – Henning Mankell

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Hope

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Hope

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Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority. – Vic Snyder

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To go to the Oscars for Moneyball – that was pretty amazing. – Chris Pratt

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amazing

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do. – Anna Held

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Women