I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

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.