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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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. – Albert Camus

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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. – Albert Camus

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It is normal to give away a little of ones life in order not to lose it all. – Albert Camus

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Horace Mann

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

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