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Albert Camus
“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.” Albert Camus, The Plague
Voltaire
“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.” Voltaire, Candide
Ambrose Bierce
“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Ayn Rand
“It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“A great calamity, for instance, is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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