"Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things."

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Albert Camus

#Simple Quotes #People Quotes

“In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.”
“My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.”

Source : "Patti Page, Proving That Simple Songs Endure" by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2003.
“Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.”
“If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.”
“I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.”
“Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.”

Source : "God in the Machine". "Antiquity", Volume 41, Issue 163, p. 174, September 1967.
“The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: and other poems”, p.25
“Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.”

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