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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so tha

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. – W. H. Auden

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