As a third grader, I didn’t understand that apathy is a symptom of collective helplessness. When we turn away from people in distress, it is not because we are unfeeling. We turn away because we feel inadequate to lend assistance.
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“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”
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“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”
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“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”
― The Immoralist
― The Immoralist
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