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Faces 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…
- That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
- 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…
More Faces Quotes
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that… — Jim Carrey
- When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step. — Paulo Coelho
- Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her… — Nien Cheng
- Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should… — Dalai Lama
- Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces… — Rick Riordan