The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays Quotes

“Next day Tarrou set to work and enrolled a first team of workers, soon to be followed by many others.
However, it is not the narrator's intention to ascribe to these sanitary groups more importance than their due. Doubtless today many of our fellow citizens are apt to yield to the temptation of exaggerating the services they rendered. But the narrator is inclined to think that by attributing overimportance to praiseworthy actions one may, by implication, be paying indirect but potent homage to the worse side of human nature. For this attitude implies that such actions shine out as rare exceptions, while callousness and apathy are the general rule.
The narrator does not share that view. The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

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― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“a person I knew used. to divide human beings into three categories : those who prefer having nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“Too many people .have decided to do without generosity in order to practise charity.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“how venial it is to get angry when one sees one's natural goodness put to the test by the malignity of the fair sex.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“Martyrs. cher ami, must choose between being for gotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood never !”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“my sensuality (to limit myself to it) was so real that even for a ten-minute adventure I'd have disowned father and mother, even were I to regret it bitterly. Nay - especially for a ten-minute adventure and even more so if I were sure it was to have no sequel. I had principles, to be sure, such as that the wife of a friend is sacred. But I simply ceased quite sincerely, a few days before, to feel any friendship for the hus band. Maybe I ought not to call this sensuality ? Sen suality is not repulsive. Let's be indulgent and use the word infirmity, a sort of congenital inability to see in love anything but the physical.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“You know what charm is : a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“For instance, you must have noticed that our old Europe at last philosophizes in the right way. We no longer say as in simple times : 'This is my opinion. What are your objections ?' We have become lucid. For the dialogue we have substituted the communique. 'This is the truth,' we say. 'You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police to show you I'm right.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“I was of respectable but humble birth (my father was an officer), and yet, on certain mornings, let me confess it humbly, I felt like a king's son, or a burning bush. It was not a matter, mind you, of the certainty I had of being more intelligent than everyone else. Be sides, such certainty is of no consequence because so many imbeciles share it.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“To console him I said: 'But, you know, everybody's in the same boat.'
'That's just it,' he replied. 'Now we're like everyone else.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays