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  • There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.

    Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.105, Oxford University Press