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A Happy Death Quotes
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
[L’oisiveté n’est fatale qu’aux médiocres.]
Source:
(Knopf, ed. 1972), Part II. Conscious Death, Chapter 2, Page 82
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Idleness
Mediocrity
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Book:
A Happy Death
Writer:
Albert Camus
Genre:
Fiction, Philosophy
Published:
1971
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