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Albert Camus
“stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves”
Albert Camus, The Plague

Albert Camus
“though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't
prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way...”
Albert Camus

Albert Camus
“But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four”
Albert Camus, The Plague

Albert Camus
“But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.”
Albert Camus, The Plague

Leo Tolstoy
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

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