Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to…

Albert Camus
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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. ✨ Albert Camus (2008). Notebooks, 1951-1959, Ivan R Dee
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