The essential is to cease being free and to obey, in repentance, a greater rogue than oneself. When we are all guilty, that will be democracy. (Albert Camus)

The essential is to cease being free and to obey, in repentance, a greater rogue than oneself. When we are all guilty, that will be democracy.

Albert Camus

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