The Stranger
Quotes and highlights from The Stranger by Albert Camus — 1 passage I marked up while reading (August 2023). Everything below is taken straight from my Kindle, unedited and in the order I read it.
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He was “an official, like.” I’d been struck before by his habit of saying “they” or, less often, “them old folks,” when referring to inmates no older than himself. Still, I could see his point of view. As doorkeeper he had a certain standing, and some authority over the rest of them.
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