Albert Camus, The Plague Quotes
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.
It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.
Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.
They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.
