I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

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

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.