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Quentin knew he wasn’t happy. Why not? He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient
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“All nations seem to have had supreme confidence in the deterrent power of threatened and inflicted pain. They have regarded punishment as the shortest road to reformation...nations have relied on confiscation and degradation, on maimings, whippings, brandings, and exposure to public ridicule and contempt...Curiously enough, the fact is that, no matter how severe the punishments were, the crimes increased.”
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“It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Those who are the fiercest to destroy their fellow men for having committed crimes, are, for the most part, at heart, criminals themselves.”
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“The poet runs untrammeled across the meadow. The translator dances in shackles.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Degradation has been thoroughly tried...and the result was that those who inflicted the punishments became as degraded as their victims.”
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Carson’s 2025 Year in Books
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