The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

Albert Camus
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The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence. This is an essay penned by the French writer, Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), who was born in Paris to an aristocratic family.

It was written shortly before his death at age 66. He was a historian whose best-known work was The Inequality of Human Races (1853).

Source: A Happy Death

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