Review: The Plague

The Plague by Albert Camus
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book contains philosophy and absurdity of how we might deal with death and isolation. One might turn numb by seeing too much death in the short span of life. One became emotionally unresponsive by the absurdity of life and when the closest died, one fails to react. Yet this story showed it lights that even in such condition, one can still find the call to help those in need.

“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.”

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