To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.
Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.