“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― L'Étranger
― L'Étranger
“We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.”
― Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
― Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
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