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  1. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
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  2. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.
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  3. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world- and finding it so much like myself, in fact so fraternal, I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still happy. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators at my execution and that they should greet me with cries of hatred."
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  4. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
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  5. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    Everything is true, and nothing is true!
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  6. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
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  7. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.
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  8. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed.
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  9. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again."
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  10. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
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  11. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
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  12. Albert Camus _ The Stranger

    I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. 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."
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