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The Plague
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For its ordinariness is what strikes one first about the town of Oran, which is merely a large French port on the Algerian coast, headquarters of the Prefect of a French Department.
“Now, at least, the position was clear; this calamity was everybody's business.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Yes, plague, like abstraction, was monotonous; perhaps only one factor changed, and that was Rieux himself.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“So if the ideal of achieving a true political equality eludes us in reality—as it continues to do—there is still available that fictional vision of an ideal democracy in which the actual combines with the ideal and gives us representations of a state of things in which the highly placed and the lowly, the black and the white, the northerner and the southerner, the native-born and the immigrant are combined to tell us of transcendent truths and possibilities such as those discovered when Mark Twain set Huck and Jim afloat on the raft.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“On the previous night his mother, when handing him a telegram from his wife, had remarked that his hands were shaking.
"Yes," he said. "But it's only a matter of sticking to it, and my nerves will steady down, you'll see.”
― The Plague
"Yes," he said. "But it's only a matter of sticking to it, and my nerves will steady down, you'll see.”
― The Plague
“It could be only the record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite their personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refusing to bow down to pestilences, strive their utmost to be healers.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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