Jeanne

“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.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Ah," Rieux said, "a man can't cure and know at the same time. So let's cure as quickly as we can. That's the more urgent”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Evening was coming on, but the town, once so noisy at this hour, was strangely still.”
― Albert Camus, 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.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man