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Face Quotes by Albert Camus
- Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
- At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
- Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
- Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
- Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
- In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide…
- The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon…
- All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A…
- Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face,…
- Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart…
- O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too,…
- When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation…
- Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and…
- Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the…
- Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where…
- What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in…
- No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
- When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am…
- Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this…
- When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but…
- I have no more patience for this Europe where Autumn wears the face of Spring and Spring reeks of misery.
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- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman
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- I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
- It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's… — Red Adair