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To all other types of humanity these torturers behave mildly and benevolently, like cultivated and humane Europeans; but they are very fond of tormenting children, even fond of children themselves in that sense. it’s just their
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Dostoyevski is nearly perfect in his grasp of abnormal psychology here.
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.”
― Saving Fish from Drowning
― Saving Fish from Drowning
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
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“Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei”
― The Joy Luck Club
-An-mei”
― The Joy Luck Club
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Dawn’s 2025 Year in Books
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