A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

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.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.