The Stranger - Albert Camus
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I
said that people never change their lives, that in any case one life was as
good as another and that I wasn’t dissatisfied with mine here at all.” (Pg 41)
“At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved
ones were dead.” (Pg 65)
“It’s just that I don’t have much to say. So I keep quiet.” (Pg
66)
“And the more I thought about it, the more I dug out of my memory
things I had overlooked or forgotten. I realized then that a man who had lived
only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have
enough memories to keep him from being bored.” (Pg 79)
“The way I see it, it’s bad luck. Everybody knows what bad luck
is. It leaves you defenseless. And there it is!” (Pg 92)
“But I couldn’t quite understand how an ordinary man’s good
qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.” (Pg 100)
“My mind was always on what was coming next, today or tomorrow.”
(Pg 100)
“I would listen to my heart-beat. I couldn’t imagine that this
sound which had been with me for so long could ever stop.” (Pg 112)
“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.” (Pg
113)
“Deep down I knew perfectly well that it doesn’t much matter
whether you die at thirty or at seventy, since in either case other men and
women will naturally go on living – and for thousands of years. In fact,
nothing could be clearer. Whether it was now or twenty years from now, I would
still be the one dying.” (Pg 114)
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I
was absolutely sure about what didn’t.” (Pg 116)
"His gaze never faltered.
And his voice didn’t falther, either, when he said, “Have you no hope at all?
And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing
remains?” “Yes,” I said.” (Pg 117)
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