#ali

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. ↗

— Albert Camus

#die #knew #life #our #ourselves

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ↗

— Albert Camus

#always #been #particular #people #tyrants

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ↗

— Albert Camus

#cannot #evil #itself #principle #reality

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#constantly #originality #quarrel #thing

Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both. ↗

— Brian Celio

#i #individuality #room #say #unity

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#ago #day #five #good #had

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#book #conversations #pictures #thought #use

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ↗

— Angela Carter

#angels #culture #high #higher #i

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#about #composer #copland #felt #had