The Plague
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The manager of the hotel can talk of nothing else. But he has a personal grievance, too; that dead rats should be found in the elevator of a three-star hotel seems to him the end of all things. To console him, I said: ‘But, you know,
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“Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.”
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“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
“In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“The manager of the hotel can talk of nothing else. But he has a personal grievance, too; that dead rats should be found in the elevator of a three-star hotel seems to him the end of all things. To console him, I said: ‘But, you know, everybody’s in the same boat.’ “ ‘That’s just it,’ he replied. ‘Now we’re like everybody else.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“For rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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