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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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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. – Albert Camus

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. – Albert Camus

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

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