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"L'Étranger" is a small book, yet it carries the burden of an astoundingly great amount of questions(and facts!) about life. Is there a point in life? Are there any standards people always struggle to maintain in order to "keep the humanity"? What about justice? Or religion? Or human relationships- marriage, friendship? Is there a point that comes with nature or people have this inner tendency to stick to rules created by their human ancestors?
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Another existential must-read.
Another body blow from Camus. I always feel personally implicated in his work, and nauseous. His characters are like manifestations of a truth which I believe we all (or myself at the very least) are very aware of at our core. Does that make me a sociopath? Regardless, a phenomenal read. The story takes second place to the display of the human condition, but it's a great story as well. Camus is fast approaching my list of all time favorites, and I fully intend to have read his entire body of wor
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