This document provides short excerpts from four novels that reference morality or relationships: The Stranger by Albert Camus, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, and again from The Stranger. The excerpts touch on themes of crime, ownership, purity, marriage, and disgust.

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2. “ At the same time I knew that that was ridiculous because, after all, I was the criminal.” — The Stranger, Albert Camus, page 68

3. “ You should have heard him say, ‘My ivory.’ Oh yes, I heard him. ‘My Intended, my ivory, my station, my river, my—’ everything belonged to him.” — Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, page 65

4. “ But the mention of such a thing as amours with any woman existing, to me, is really so absurd, so far from my principles, so far from the purity of nature and frame to which I was born and consecrated, that I hold it as an insult, and regard it with contempt.” — The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg, page 147

5. “ Then she pointed out that marriage was a serious thing. I said, ‘No.’” - The Stranger, Albert Camus, page 42

6. - The Stranger, Albert Camus, page 39 “ If only someone would take him in. But that’s impossible—everybody’s disgusted by his scabs”