I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free from it. And I know too that we must keep endless watch on ourselves lest in careless moment we breathe in somebody's face and fasten the infection on him. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest- health integrity purity if you like - is a product of the human will of vigilance that must never falter. The good man the man who infects hardly anyone is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention. And it needs tremendous will-power a never ending tension of the mind to avoid such lapses. Yes Rieux it's a wearying business being plague-stricken. But it's still more wearying to refuse to be it. That's why everybody in the world today looks so tired everyone is more or less sick of plague. But that is also why some of us who want to get the plague out of their systems feel such desperate weariness a weariness from which nothing remains to set us free except death. . Albert Camus
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
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Thucydides
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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Douglas Adams
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
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Matt Groening
I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
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Ilona Andrews
More Quotes By Albert Camus
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...
Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
