• Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) 1913-1960
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. forgiveness
2. implacable
3. guillotine
4. logic

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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. by : Albert Camus

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