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by Blake Crouch

So I settled for watching them from a distance—this forgotten fragment of humanity making a life together in the most inhospitable of places. They seemed truly happy, and it made me happy to watch them—a thousand small kindnesses among people who had nothing to give.

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We were a monstrous, thoughtful, selfish, sensitive, fearful, ambitious, loving, hateful, hopeful species. We contained within us the potential for great evil, but also for great good. And we were capable of so much more than this. My sister had been right about one thing: I couldn’t do nothing.

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Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to Man. The battle will then be won. We shall have “taken the thread of life out of the hand of Clotho” and be henceforth free to make our species whatever we wish it to be. The battle will indeed be won. But who, precisely, will have won it? —C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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