My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

Men die and they are not happy.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

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.

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.

There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.