"When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak."
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Albert Camus, Reflections on the Guillotine (1957); later included in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960).
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