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“Are you humans or what' works. The farther west you go, the better it works. The desire to be human, or rather, a good human, makes some people do stupid things, and others do a lot of good.”
― Olena Stiazhkina, Cecil the Lion Had to Die

“I see you as everything you tell me you are or want to be.”
― Edward Underhill

“By the standards of war, Maria was a useless human being. They didn’t need bookkeepers or painters of pimpled faces at the front. Sometimes Maria would convince herself that making people beautiful for their burial was something, but what burials will there be if nuclear winter destroys everyone made-up or not very? How will anyone be buried if the whole Earth becomes one mass grave, and beauty is forgotten, an impossibility?”
― Olena Stiazhkina, Cecil the Lion Had to Die

“Perhaps we've been killed these hundred years and are only ghosts. It's as if I had been through all this before; as if I'd already had a mortal wound here in the throat.”
― Karel Čapek, R.U.R.