The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. In — Albert Camus, A Happy Death
The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. In — Albert Camus, A Happy Death
The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. In — Albert Camus, A Happy Death
The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. In — Albert Camus, A Happy Death
The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. In — Albert Camus, A Happy Death
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The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

— Albert Camus, A Happy Death
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