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“In different degrees, in every part of the town, men and women had been yearning for a reunion, not of the same kind for all, but for all alike ruled out. Most of them had longed intensely for an absent one, for the warmth of a body, for love, or merely a life that habit had endeared. Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual channels of friendship—letters, trains, and boats. Others, fewer these... had desired a reunion with something they couldn’t have defined, but which seemed to them the only desirable thing on earth. For want of a better name, they sometimes called it peace.”
― Albert Camus

“There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.”
― Albert Camus

“حين تنشب حرب ما يقول الناس " إنها لن تدوم طويلاً ، فهذا أمر مفرط في السخف" ولا ريب في أن حرباً ما هي أمر مفرط في السخف، ولكن ذلك لا يمنعها أن تدوم، إن السخف يلح دائماً ،”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus