"Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter."

Albert Camus | The Stranger

"Gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe."

Albert Camus | The Stranger

"The papers often talk of “a debt owed to society” - a debt which, according to them, must be paid by the offender. But talk of that sort doesn’t touch the imagination. No, the one thing that counted for me was the possibility of making a dash for it and defeating their bloodthirsty rite; of a mad stampede to freedom that would anyhow give me a moment’s hope, the gambler’s last throw. Naturally, all that “hope” could come to was to be knocked down at the corner of a street or picked off by a bullet in my back. But, all things considered, even this luxury was forbidden me; I was caught in the rattrap irrevocably."

Albert Camus | The Stranger

"Though I mightn’t be so sure about what interested me, I was absolutely sure about what didn’t interest me."

Albert Camus | The Stranger

"Imagination has never been one of my strong points. Still, I tried to picture a moment when the beating of my heart no longer echoed in my head."

Albert Camus | The Stranger

Albert Camus | The Stranger

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"We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer’s ink."

Albert Camus - Helen’s Exile (1948)