"I like people who dream or talk..." - Quote by Albert Camus
I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
More by Albert Camus
“The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.”
“Men die and they are not happy.”
“I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.”
More on Imagination
“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”
“There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.”
“We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.”
More on Human Nature
“To a valet no man is a hero.[Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]”
“A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.”
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”