The Plague

by Albert Camus

the greatest suffering of this time, the most prevalent and the deepest suffering, was separation,

“If a priest consults a doctor, there’s a contradiction.”

“When innocence has its eyes gouged out, a Christian has to either lose his faith or accept having his eyes gouged out. Paneloux doesn’t want to lose his faith, so he’ll follow it to the very end.

At that moment Rieux knew what the crying old man was thinking, and he thought the same way, that this world without love was like a dead world, and that there always comes a moment when people tire of prisons, work, and courage and cry out for a human face and a heart enthralled with tenderness.