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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Marquis de Sade

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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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