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. β¨ ALBERT CAMUS (1971). NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY
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- What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support. β¨ Albert Camus (1955). The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
- All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. β¨ Albert Camus (2013). The Myth of Sisyphus, p.1 β¦ βΆ
- Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. β¨ Albert Camus (2012). The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, p.291, Vintage
- Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itsel β¦ βΆ
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