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"France used to live by shopworn maxims, which explained to younger generations that life required compromise, that one had to know when to make concessions, that enthusiasm was short-lived, and that in a world where craftiness was always right, one had to make an effort not to be wrong.  That was the way things were before the war.  And when the men of our generation reacted against the injustice, they were told it would be passed on to them.  So, little by little, the morality of least resistance and disillusionment spread."  Albert Camus