And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one’s work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world.
pawn / World / worldliness
Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the household of millions upon millions.
Alone / dread / God / overlooked / World
To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one’s breast and groan over oneself.
groan / unhappiness / World
Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
I am my world.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Conquer yourself rather than the world.