“Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principl...” — Albert Camus Quote

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

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

I was that sort of obnoxious girl, I remember being 10 at careers things where people were talking about becoming secretaries and I said I don't want to be a secretary, I want to have a secretary, and people would sort of look at me slightly perplexed.

I'm becoming more and more confident and am falling more and more in love with the whole world of comedy, and I think that's something that I really want to explore a lot more.

I've got this fear of becoming comfortable.

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.