The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Albert Camus Classics)

by Albert Camus

“Is my client on trial for having buried his mother, or for killing a man?” he asked.

“Have you no hope at all? Do you really think that when you die you die outright, and nothing remains?” I said: “Yes.”

It must make life unbearable for a man, to think as I did.

And what difference could it make if, after being charged with murder, he were executed because he didn’t weep at his mother’s funeral, since it all came to the same thing in the end?