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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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Art
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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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Love :: Self-love
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. – 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

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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows. – Gabriel Peri

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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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