When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.

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.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.