Word: mauborg
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...Unbeliever and Christians, excerpted from a statement made in 1948 at the Dominican monastery of Latour-Mauborg in Paris, the reader will find baldly stated one tenet of Camus' entire outlook, echoing again and again through his works: "Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children." One thinks again of The Plague, and of the priest Paneloux who learned that suffering demands resistance, and that tyranny, in whatever form, cannot be excused by either its transcendental value or its universality...
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