#quotes .

[leafiebreeze]

For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

Albert Camus, The Stranger

[leafiebreeze]

As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

Albert Camus, The Stranger

[leafiebreeze]

But everybody knows life isn't worth living.

Albert Camus, The Stranger

[leafiebreeze]

I've never liked being surprised. If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Albert Camus, The Stranger

[leafiebreeze]

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

Albert Camus, The Stranger

[leafiebreeze]

I would have liked to have tried explaining to him cordially, almost affectionately, that I had never been able to truly feel remorse for anything. My mind was always on what was coming next, today or tomorrow.

Albert Camus, The Stranger

[leafiebreeze]

"You must understand," Salamano kept saying, "you must understand." But no one seemed to understand.

Albert Camus, The Stranger