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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

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Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the ...more

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The world always says the same thing. And in that patient truth which proceeds from star to star is established a freedom that releases us from oursel...more

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Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory... Everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad abo...more

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The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I ...more

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Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

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He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something ...more

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O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprud...more

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We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fell...more

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In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significan...more

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It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclai...more

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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

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But memory is less disposed to compromise

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Tarrou had "lost the match," as he put it. But what had he, Rieux, won? No more than the experience of having known plague and remembering it, of havi...more