May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.