I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.