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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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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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I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themsel...more

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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February 13, 1936I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself p...more

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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