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The Plague
by Albert Camus
Part 1:
"Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street."
"We tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away."
Part 2:
"Thus, too, they came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose."
"Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or hatred, forces to live behind prison bars."
"Death means nothing to men like me.β
"Invariably their epical or prize-speech verbiage jarred on the doctor. Needless to say, he knew the sympathy was genuine enough. But it could be expressed only in the conventional language with which men try to express what unites them with mankind in general; a vocabulary quite unsuited, for example, to Grand's small daily effort."
"I've seen enough people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learnt it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves."
Part 3:
"The habit of despair is worse than despair itself."
Part 4:
"No, Father. I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day, I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture."
"Nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity."
βYes, I've been ashamed ever since; I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace."
"What's natural is the microbe. All the rest β health, integrity, purity (if you like) β is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention."
Part 5:
"Once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of the plague was ended."
"So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories."
"If there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love."
"What we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise."
And the final paragraph of part 5 is amazing -
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I REALLY tried to limit my self to only a few quotes but this was a reading experience i absolutely adored it. (except for the when I was at the end of part 4 and I spoiled Tarrous death for myself by google
"Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street."
"We tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away."
Part 2:
"Thus, too, they came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose."
"Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or hatred, forces to live behind prison bars."
"Death means nothing to men like me.β
"Invariably their epical or prize-speech verbiage jarred on the doctor. Needless to say, he knew the sympathy was genuine enough. But it could be expressed only in the conventional language with which men try to express what unites them with mankind in general; a vocabulary quite unsuited, for example, to Grand's small daily effort."
"I've seen enough people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learnt it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves."
Part 3:
"The habit of despair is worse than despair itself."
Part 4:
"No, Father. I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day, I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture."
"Nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity."
βYes, I've been ashamed ever since; I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace."
"What's natural is the microbe. All the rest β health, integrity, purity (if you like) β is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention."
Part 5:
"Once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of the plague was ended."
"So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories."
"If there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love."
"What we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise."
And the final paragraph of part 5 is amazing -
-
I REALLY tried to limit my self to only a few quotes but this was a reading experience i absolutely adored it. (except for the when I was at the end of part 4 and I spoiled Tarrous death for myself by google