Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dange…

Albert Camus
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. ✨ ALBERT CAMUS (1971). NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY
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