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The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

by Pierre Abélard

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“The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati

tags: james-joyce, madness, normalcy

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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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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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