“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that 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 Plague
― The Plague
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