For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering? He who asserted that would not be a true Christian, a follower of the Master who knew all the pangs of suffering in his body and his soul.
 Albert Camus, The Plague (1947). copy citation

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Author Albert Camus
Source The Plague
Topic happiness suffering
Date 1947
Language English
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Note Translated by Stuart Gilbert
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