The StrangerA young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character ... |
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... death a decent , hard - working young man , because for one tragic moment he lost his self - con- trol ? Is he not sufficiently punished by the lifelong remorse that is to be his lot ? I confidently await your verdict , the only verdict ...
... death a decent , hard - working young man , because for one tragic moment he lost his self - con- trol ? Is he not sufficiently punished by the lifelong remorse that is to be his lot ? I confidently await your verdict , the only verdict ...
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... death had cornered me . Once you're up against it , the precise manner of your death has obviously small importance . Therefore - but it was hard not to lose the thread of the argument leading up to that " therefore " -I should be ...
... death had cornered me . Once you're up against it , the precise manner of your death has obviously small importance . Therefore - but it was hard not to lose the thread of the argument leading up to that " therefore " -I should be ...
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... death , he said , that he spoke to me in this way . In his opinion every man on the earth was under sentence of death . There , I interrupted him ; that wasn't the same thing , I pointed out , and , what's more 146.
... death , he said , that he spoke to me in this way . In his opinion every man on the earth was under sentence of death . There , I interrupted him ; that wasn't the same thing , I pointed out , and , what's more 146.
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