The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Albert Camus Classics)

by Albert Camus

through my body and even bringing tears to my eyes. But it was up to me to bring my nerves to heel and steady my mind; for, even in considering this possibility, I had to keep some order in my thoughts, so as to make my consolations, as regards the first alternative, more plausible.

I went close up to him and made a last attempt to explain that I’d very little time left, and I wasn’t going to waste it on God.

It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time,