So does every ill that flesh is heir to. What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. All the same, when you see the misery it brings, you’d need to be a madman, or a coward, or stone blind, to give in tamely to the plague.
 Albert Camus, The Plague (1947). copy citation

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Author Albert Camus
Source The Plague
Topic misery evil
Date 1947
Language English
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Note Translated by Stuart Gilbert
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