“And indeed as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperilled. He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could be learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come for the bane and the enlightening of man, it roused up its rats again and sent them forth to die in a happy city.”
Albert Camus (1913-60) first published “The Plague” in 1947.
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