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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Albert Camus
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Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern
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