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The judges did the punishing, the criminals paid for their crimes and I, free of responsibilities, removed from judgment and from punishment, I ruled, freely, in an edenic light.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913–1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. The Fall, p. 31, Gallimard (1956).

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