Chris Stanford

“Dr Rieux decided to write the account that ends here, so as not to be one of those who keep silent, to bear witness on behalf of the victims, to leave at least a memory of the violence and injustice that was done to them, and to say simply what it is that one learns in the midst of such tribulations, namely that there is more in men to admire than to despise.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“But there always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished by death.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“What injures the hive injures the bee.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Tarrou had lost the game, as he said. But what had he, Rieux, won? All he had gained was to have known the plague and to remember it, to have known friendship and to remember it, to have known affection and to have one day to remember it. All that a man could win in the game of plague and life was knowledge and memory.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague