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Albert Camus

The Plague

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  • swalkerllanhas quoted3 years ago
    They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.
  • я с н оhas quoted2 years ago
    The clang of an unseen streetcar came through the window, briskly refuting cruelty and pain.
  • я с н оhas quoted2 years ago
    wide margin for error.
  • я с н оhas quoted2 years ago
    But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination
  • я с н оhas quoted2 years ago
    He tried to recall what he had read about the disease. Figures floated across his memory, and he recalled that some thirty or so great plagues known to history had accounted for nearly a hundred million deaths.
  • я с н оhas quoted2 years ago
    a thing made to man’s measure
  • я с н оhas quoted2 years ago
    In this respect our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences
  • я с н оhas quoted2 years ago
    as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
  • я с н оhas quoted2 years ago
    he was torn between conflicting fears and confidence.
  • я с н оhas quoted2 years ago
    Rieux was caught off his guard,
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