To blame others for our failures is a common fault. But Hitler then—and later—carried it to extremes. He was always finding a scapegoat.
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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