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Quote by Albert Camus
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. – Albert Camus

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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. – Albert Camus

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Suffering
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Albert Camus
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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History
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Greatness & Great Things
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The dullards envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. – Max Beerbohm

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Greatness & Great Things

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. – Jean Baudrillard

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Greatness & Great Things

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. – Phillips Brooks

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Greatness & Great Things

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Greatness & Great Things

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We love the precepts for the teachers sake. – George Farquhar

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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. – Ray Bradbury

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