“There must be justice, not charity.”

— Henri Barbusse

Light (1919), Ch. XX The Cult
Context: There must be justice, not charity. Kindness is solitary. Compassion becomes one with him whom we pity; it allows us to fathom him, to understand him alone amongst the rest; but it blurs and befogs the laws of the whole. I must set off with a clear idea, like the beam of a lighthouse through the deformities and temptations of night.

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French novelist 1873–1935

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