“The gods granted man great and dazzling virtues that put him in a position to overcome all. But at the same time they granted him a bitterer virtue which makes him scorn afterward everything that can be overcome. … Constant enjoyment is impossible; weariness comes in the end.”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951
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