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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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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. – Albert Camus

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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. – Albert Camus

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A mans work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. – 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

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

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. – J.B.S. Haldane

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

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