{"id":8851,"date":"2013-04-16T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/16\/bogus-camus-quotation\/"},"modified":"2013-04-16T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:05:46","slug":"bogus-camus-quotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/16\/bogus-camus-quotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus Camus Quotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One finds the following on several of those wretched unsourced quotation sites:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>&quot;I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn&#39;t, than live my life as if there isn&#39;t, and die to find out there is.&quot;<\/em> ~Albert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Having read and taught Camus, the above is not something he could have said in his own voice.&#0160; Did he put these words into the mouth of a character in one his novels or plays?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Paging <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/04\/who-is-dave-lull.html\" target=\"_self\">Dave Lull<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One finds the following on several of those wretched unsourced quotation sites: &quot;I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn&#39;t, than live my life as if there isn&#39;t, and die to find out there is.&quot; ~Albert Camus Having read and taught Camus, the above &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/16\/bogus-camus-quotation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bogus Camus Quotation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camus","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}