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“My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”
― Hold Still
― Hold Still
“People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“The conception of secular state is derived from the liberal democratic tradition of west. No institution which is maintained wholly out of state funds shall be used for the purpose of religious instruction irrespective of the question whether the religious instruction is given by the state or any other body.”
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“It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
― Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany
― Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany
“Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.”
― Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.”
― Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
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