The StrangerA young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character ... |
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... sure about what interested me , I was absolutely sure about what didn't interest me . And the question he had raised didn't interest me at all . He looked away and , without altering his pos- ture , asked if it was because I felt ...
... sure about what interested me , I was absolutely sure about what didn't interest me . And the question he had raised didn't interest me at all . He looked away and , without altering his pos- ture , asked if it was because I felt ...
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... sure you've often wished there was an afterlife . " Of course I had , I told him . Everybody has that wish at times . But that had no more importance than wishing to be rich , or to swim very fast , or to have a better - shaped mouth ...
... sure you've often wished there was an afterlife . " Of course I had , I told him . Everybody has that wish at times . But that had no more importance than wishing to be rich , or to swim very fast , or to have a better - shaped mouth ...
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... sure of myself , sure about everything , far surer than he ; sure of my present life and of the death that was coming . That , no doubt , was all I had ; but at least that certainty was something I could get my teeth into - just as it ...
... sure of myself , sure about everything , far surer than he ; sure of my present life and of the death that was coming . That , no doubt , was all I had ; but at least that certainty was something I could get my teeth into - just as it ...
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