Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

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

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.