
The Plague

“The important thing,” Castel replied, “isn’t the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.”
Albert Camus • The Plague
some stir in Algiers. A young commercial employee had killed an Algerian on a beach.
Albert Camus • The Plague
What’s important is for you to go out a bit. It’s a mistake staying indoors too much.”
Albert Camus • The Plague
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.
Albert Camus • The Plague
There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn’t waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.
Albert Camus • The Plague
and what obscure motive had led him to risk his life for the sake of parading the streets on Sunday mornings.
Albert Camus • The Plague
A pestilence isn’t a thing made to man’s measure;
Albert Camus • The Plague
I can’t say I really know him, but one’s got to help a neighbor, hasn’t one?”
Albert Camus • The Plague
‘But I feel sure it’s not contagious,’ he hastened to assure me. “I told him it was all the same to me. “ ‘Ah, I understand, sir. You’re like me, you’re a fatalist.’ “I had said nothing of the kind and, what’s more, am not a fatalist.