580 quotes found
“In the long run one gets used to anything.”
“I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.”
“He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justi...”
“As he himself said, "I will prove it to you, gentlemen, and i will prove it in two ways. First in the blinding clarity of the facts, and second, in the dim light cast by the mind of his criminal soul.”
“Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.”
“I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free from it. And I know too that we must keep endless watch on ourselves lest in careless moment we breath...”
“One of the cafés had that brilliant idea of putting up a slogan: 'the best protection against infection is a good bottle of wine', which confirmed an already prevalent opinion that alcohol is a saf...”
“For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother really—I felt that I had been...”
“Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.”
“They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.”
“How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!”
“Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!”
“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong t”
“So it came to this, that— against the grain, no doubt—the condemned man had to hope the apparatus was in good working order! This, I thought, was a flaw in the system; and, on the face of it, my vi...”
“On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that o...”
“On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow of a tree, their peace untroubled by footsteps or a dog's bark, glimmered in the pale recession. ...”
“Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence”
“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
“It is better to burn than to disappear.”
“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.”
