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Away Quotes by Albert Camus
- In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
- It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
- The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That…
- That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
- In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold…
- To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the…
- Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
- And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither…
- What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
- In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius