“Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the ma…”

“Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death "He is going to pay his debt to society," but: "They are going to cut off his head." It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.”

— Albert Camus

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Context

"Entre oui et non" in L'Envers et l'endroit (1937), translated as "Between Yes and No", in World Review magazine (March 1950), also quoted in The Artist and Political Vision (1982) by Benjamin R. Barber and Michael J. Gargas McGrath

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Camus, Albert. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Albert Camus. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus

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