BOOK STARTERS VOL.21 THE PLAGUE ALBERT CAMUS
❛ I have no idea what’s awaiting me. ❜
❛ What will happen when this all ends? ❜
❛ I know that you are capable of great deeds. ❜
❛ A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one’s work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart. ❜
❛ The truth is that everyone is bored. ❜
❛ I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don’t really appeal to me, I imagine. ❜
❛ If there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. ❜
❛ Who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for even a single moment’s suffering? ❜
❛ It’s not easy. I’ve been thinking it over for years. ❜
❛ While we loved each other we didn’t need words to make ourselves understood. ❜
❛ People are more often bad than good. ❜
❛ I don’t believe in heroism; I know it’s easy and I’ve learned that it can be murderous. ❜
❛ What interests me is living and dying for what one loves. ❜
❛ In fact, nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. ❜
❛ Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves. ❜
❛ Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ❜
❛ There are more things to admire in men then to despise. ❜
❛ It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. ❜
❛ What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this? ❜
❛ Your code of morals? What code, if I may ask? ❜
❛ I’m fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I’ve long ceased finding anything. ❜
❛ No doubt our love is still there, but quite simply it is unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. ❜
❛ I’m not happy to go, but one needn’t be happy to make another start. ❜
❛ I am incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that I am incapable of anything really worth while. ❜
❛ I should have found the words to keep her with me. ❜
❛ We can’t stir a finger in this world without the risk of bringing death to somebody. ❜
❛ The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. ❜
❛ There are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live. ❜
❛ The best protection against anything is a good bottle of wine. ❜
❛ There is no peace without hope. ❜