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What did Albert Camus mean when he said "Morality, when formal, devours."?

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There are some quotes which could help to elucidate this further. One (from his Notebook) is:
"Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness."
In another place (can't find it at the moment) he writes that in most occasions you don't need principles because just being merciful is enough.