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I had a curious sense that these ideas would one day manifest themselves in the real world and that my destiny was not to remain isolated in our small town but to spend my days among tribes and cultures alien to my own.
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Albert Camus
“La nuit qui suivit ne fut pas celle de la lutte, mais celle du silence. Dans cette chambre retranchée du monde, au-dessus de ce corps mort maintenant habillé, Rieux sentit planer le calme surprenant qui, bien des nuits auparavant, sur les terrasses au-dessus de la peste, avait suivi l'attaque des portes. Déjà, à cette époque, il avait pensé à ce silence qui s'élevait des lits où il avait laissé mourir des hommes. C'était partout la même pause, le même intervalle solennel, toujours le même apaisement qui suivait les combats, c'était le silence de la défaite. Mais pour celui qui enveloppait maintenant son ami, il était si compact, il s'accordait si étroitement au silence des rues et de la ville libérée de la peste, que Rieux sentait bien qu'il s'agissait cette fois de la défaite définitive, celle qui termine les guerres et fait de la paix elle-même une souffrance sans guérison. Le docteur ne savait pas si, pour finir, Tarrou avait retrouvé la paix, mais, dans ce moment tout au moins, il croyait savoir qu'il n'y aurait jamais plus de paix possible pour lui-même, pas plus qu'il n'y a d'armistice pour la mère amputée de son fils ou pour l'homme qui ensevelit son ami.”
Albert Camus, The Plague

Albert Camus
“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
Albert Camus, The Plague
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Barbara Kingsolver
“But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that?” “It was a president, señora.” “Of what? Some place where they don’t have any oxygen?” “Of the United States.” “As I said.”
Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

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