Quote by Albert Camus
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus

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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. – Albert Camus

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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. – Albert Camus

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I am as content to die for Gods eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. – John Mason Brown

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads havent been cut off. – E. M. Cioran

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