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.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.