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"I was shadowing an English class today and they had just finished reading Camus' the stranger. Like, literally the read the final chapter in class today. Now the stranger happens to be a book that's really close to my heart so I was super interested to see what the conversation would be about after "
"That's enough for me; call me Meursault's female counterpart, I don't know. The job afforded me enough downtime to read The Stranger in two shifts."
"This would be manageable if I had some actually stable form of spirituality but, as a lifelong atheist, I cannot bring myself to believe in things I feel are untrue no matter many times I've attempted to do it. I've tried replacing it with the typical stoicism or reading camus or whatever, but it al"
"Something about the combination of Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Camus and Kierkegaard is usually an indicator. They also tend to really covet books as objects/commodities and have surface level ways of dismissing authors which they've never read (Freud bad, Hemingway misogynist, etc)."
"For me, no single writer (besides Camus but he's been talked of plenty here) has effected me more than the lunatic genius of of 20th century journalism, Hunter S. Thompson."
"I've tried the rational argument route which got me through my nihilist phase. The ideas and concepts shared by philosophers such as Heidigger, Nietzsche or even Sartre and Camus, don't really click for her the way it did for me."
"Finding common ground Mersault: shooting Arabs for fun!"
"one of only six from the entire continent to have ever won -- and that's counting camus, mahfouz, gordimer, and coetzee"
"The renowned philosopher Albert Camus once said, 'In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.' Likewise, within the aloofness of a cat's demeanor, we discover a profound sense of independence and self-assuredness that radiates warmth and strength."
"Since God is dead, why not listen to Camus, and take the only 100% guaranteed stop-the-suffering-and-coping-with-existence pill?"
"Idk it's incredibly annoying; a very trapped feeling. I feel like Meursault in the Stranger."
"For me, no single writer (besides Camus but he's been talked of plenty here) has effected me more than the lunatic genius of of 20th century journalism, Hunter S. Thompson."
"The renowned philosopher Albert Camus once said, 'In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.'"
"Since God is dead, why not listen to Camus, and take the only 100% guaranteed stop-the-suffering-and-coping-with-existence pill?"
"I think the greatest thing camus drove across is that the main characters traits are banal and doesn't stem from any real neurosis but just extreme individuation"
"What is the appeal of The Stranger by Camus?"