Stranger, who could know what this word means. Stranger, to acknowledge that everything is foreign to me [Étranger, avouer que tout m’est étranger].

—Albert Camus, Carnets (March 1940)

In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels like a stranger.

—Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

The entire bureaucracy, the entire court system, all industry hears and uses the colonizer’s language. Likewise, highway markings, railroad station signs, street signs, and receipts make the colonized feel like a stranger in his own country.

—Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized