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this is giving Albert Camus with how it's written and structured. I'm not even kidding. I wonder if they were written at the same time?

Hold on I'm checking

TSAR (lol that abbreviation) - 22nd Oct 1926, almost 100!
L'Étranger - 19th May 1942

Not even remotely at the same time, but I don't think TSAR is existential like L'Étranger

'I had this feeling as in a nightmare of it all being something repeated, something I had been through and that now I must go through again.'

Brett is a mess and playing in his face. But I really like her

'It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.'

'Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realise you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?'