# Quote — Albert Camus, A Happy Death

> He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.

- Author: [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md)
- Book: [A Happy Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#A_Happy_Death_(written_1936-38_(published_in_1971,_over_11_years_after_the_author's_death))) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/he-marveled-at-the

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> Having money is a way of being free of money.

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> Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/only-it-takes.md)

> Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory...Everything is forgotten, even great love.

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Topics: [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md), [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md)