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[An excerpt from "Preface to The Stranger" by Albert Camus]
To lie is not only to say what isn't true. It is also and above all, to say more than is true, and, as far as the human heart is concerned, to express more than one feels. This is what we all do, everyday, to simplify life. He says what he is, he refuses to...
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I've been doing quite a bit of reading as of late. Currently I'm tackling The Plague by Albert Camus. Ive read a few other books by Camus and I am really starting to appreciate his literature. This passage from The Plague may explain why:

This was, indeed, the hour when he could feel surest she was wholly his. Till four in the morning one is...
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Last night was my senior prom and my friends and I staged what I like to call a little "Cure d'etat" of the DJ. You see for the past three formal dances at our enormous high school I have requested any song by the Cure to be played. Thrice I have requested the Cure, thrice I was refused. So this time I took some initiative...
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Tonight is my Senior Prom...

Right now I'm pondering the science of putting on a tux and doing some laundry for the rest of the weekend. I can't wait till the dance part of prom is over. It's not that I don't like dancing I just hate all the red tape that comes along with it. Red tape being pictures, pictures, and more pictures.

I...
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This is my first time posting in my SG Journal. It is not my intent to keep you here very long, so let's cut to the chase, shall we? I am an 18 year old from the Chicago area and my one true passion is writing. Odds are I will be sharing different things I've written in this here journal. It might not be a...
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