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“Facing everything noble and elementary in the world, she united her life with her longing for life, identified her hopes with the movement of the stars. Suddenly turning around, she said to Patrice: “On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.”

“Most men cannot prove they are not mediocre.”

“it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if it was to do so, he realized he must submit to time, that to come to terms with time is one of the most magnified and the most dangerous of experiments”

“Mersault turned the corner and again recognised the smell of cucumbers. And with the smell his suffering”