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  1. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
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  2. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
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  3. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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  4. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.
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  5. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    من بیشتر با شکست یافتگان احساس همدردی می‌کنم تا با مقدسین. گمان می‌کنم که من قهرمانی و تقدس را زیاد نمی‌پسندم. آنچه برایم جالب است انسان بودن است.
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  6. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences.
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  7. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
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  8. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of the town they would have liked to slow it down and hold each moment in suspense, once the breaks went on and the train was entering the station. For the sensation, confused perhaps, but none the less poingant for that, of all those days and weeks and months of life lost to their love made them vaguely feel they were entitled to some compensation; this present hour of joy should run at half the speed of those long hours of waiting.
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  9. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    There are more things to admire in men then to despise.
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  10. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.
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  11. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. 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.
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  12. Albert Camus _ The Plague

    But 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. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four"
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