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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."— Albert Camus
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Meaning of this quote
Success may attract resentment unless its benefits are shared. The saying can be read as a social observation rather than a demand to apologize for happiness.
Key takeaway:
Consider how good fortune can also benefit other people.
Origin of the quote
Repeated under Camus’s name in later scholarly and quotation writing.
Who actually said this?
Commonly attributedThe located journal article gives no original Camus work or passage. Its repetition is not independent authentication.
