"There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible."

-- Albert Camus

#Death Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.”
“You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.”
“The fruit of humanity is devotion to one's parents. The fruit of righteousness is to respect one's elders. The fruit of wisdom is to understand these two and not to betray them. The fruit of propriety is to regulate and polish them. The fruit of music is the joy that comes from rejoicing in them. When one rejoices in them, they grow. When they grow, how can they be stopped? And when they cannot be stopped, unconsciously one's feet begin to dance and one's arms begin to wave.”
“Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.”
“Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.”
“Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.”
“"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."”
“What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.”

Source : "Theresa Breslin: bringing the past to life". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2010.

You may also like:

Ernest Hemingway
Author
Franz Kafka
Writer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
Marcel Proust
Novelist
Marguerite Duras
Writer
Simone de Beauvoir
Writer
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher