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“The Mother of God. Good-looking. Well-dressed. A good person. Knows how to make the absolute best of a situation. And never uppity about any of it.”
― Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
― Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
“His eyes swelling with tears, the alien salt stinging. Not tears of sadness, this he decides. He won't let them be anything more than a body's way of letting go.”
― The Ancestor
― The Ancestor
“A well-told lie is worth a thousand facts”
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“But, if we consider, as physicists now claim, that everything is energy—everything we see, everything we think, everything we do—then it is just possible that this same law of conservation of energy applies to questions of morality. A conservation of moral energy, a maintenance of equilibrium… a balance exists and must be preserved. If an action is taken that disrupts that balance, then an action similar in kind and degree is required to restore equilibrium.”
― Eye for Eye
― Eye for Eye
“Ahlak felsefesinde, onlar da bizim bilginlerimizle aynı sorunlar üzerinde durmaktadırlar. Onlar da gerek insanın ruhunda ve bedeninde, gerek dış dünyada onu mutlu edebilecek şeyleri ararlar. Onlar da şunu sormaktadırlar kendi kendilerine: Acaba iyi dediğimiz şey hem ruhun, hem bedenin isteklerini mi karşılar, yoksa yalnız ruhun isteklerini mi? Onlar da erdem ve zevk üstüne tartışırlar. Ama asıl tartıştıkları sorun, insan mutluluğunun bir yek ya da birçok koşulunu aramaktır.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
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