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The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

by Pierre Abélard

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The Satanic Verses

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“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
― Sigmund Freud

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“When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.”
― Vladimir Lenin

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“Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.”
― Peter Singer, Writings on an Ethical Life: Peter Singer's Provocative Philosophy on Animal Rights and Bioethics

tags: emotion, philosophy, reason, suffering

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“Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.”
― Aleister Crowley

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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

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