“Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in w…”

“Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?”

— Albert Camus

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Title: Wikiquote: Albert Camus
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Said at the Dominican Monastery of Latour-Maubourg (1948); reported in Resistance, Rebellion and Death (translation by Justin O'Brien, 1961), p. 73

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Camus, Albert. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Albert Camus. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus

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