They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles,…

Albert Camus
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They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. ✨ Albert Camus (1960). The plague: translated from the French
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