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Albert Camus

Quote of Albert Camus - To create is likewise to give...


Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Créer, c'est ainsi donner une forme à son destin.




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Quotes for: form


Quotes

Quotes about form:


I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.





Matter remains, and form is lost.





Form is the substance which rises to the surface.





Formation, transformation, The eternal mind's eternal recreation.





The dignity of art appears perhaps most eminently in music, because in music there is no material factor to be discounted. Music is all form and figure, exalting and ennobling everything it expresses.





The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a child absorbs form and color.







Quotes for: destiny


Quotes

Quotes about destiny:


Fate shuffles the cards and we play.





The stars of your destiny are in your heart.





A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.





A Destiny is not a punishment.





Each life makes its destiny.





What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.











Quotes

Albert Camus also said...


The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.





In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





There are more things to admire in men than to despise.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.












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