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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.
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― The Forest House
― The Forest House
“came to this: not only had the town ceased to be in touch with the rest of the world by normal means of communication, but also, according to a second notification, all correspondence was forbidden, to obviate the risk of letters carrying infection outside the town.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Yes, plague, like abstraction, was monotonous; perhaps only one factor changed, and that was Rieux himself.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Thus, too, they came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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