Albert Camus quote about silence from The Myth of Sisyphus - A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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“ A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says. ”
 Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). copy citation

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Author Albert Camus
Source The Myth of Sisyphus
Topic silence talking self
Date 1942
Language English
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Note Translated by Justin O'Brien
Weblink http://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil360/16.%20Myth%20of%20Sisyph...

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“But a single truth, if it is obvious, is enough to guide an existence. As for me, I decidedly have something to say about the individual. One must speak of him bluntly and, if need be, with the appropriate contempt. «A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says. There are many that I shall keep to myself. But I firmly believe that all those who have judged the individual have done so with much less experience than we on which to base their judgment. The intelligence, the stirring intelligence perhaps foresaw what it was essential to note.” source
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“Un homme est plus un homme par les choses qu'il tait que par celles qu'il dit.” Albert Camus, Le Mythe de Sisyphe

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Albert Camus quote about silence from The Myth of Sisyphus - A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
Albert Camus quote about silence from The Myth of Sisyphus - A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.