By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
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- Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
- The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
- Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
- A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
- Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.