We are condemned to live together.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.

Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.