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“Divorce is insane... It’s basically the person who knows you better than anyone else in the entire world, someone who knows you at your core or whatever, just turning to you and saying ‘I don’t want anything to do with you’ and then rejecting you completely.”
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“Don't be afraid, he said. I'll speak softly. It's not for the world's ears but for yours only. Let me see you. Don't you know that I'd have loved you
like a son?”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
like a son?”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“Young people never say anything straight. You can tell they're being honest if they hide behind a laugh.”
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
“At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the siege mentality of war or threat of war. Everywhere society conditions people to respect and defer to authority, and indeed could scarcely function otherwise. Everywhere people seek career advancement. In every modern society, the complexity of life and the resulting bureaucratization and specialization attenuate the sense of personal responsibility of those implementing official policy. Within virtually every social collective, the peer group exerts tremendous pressures on behavior and sets moral norms. If the men of Reserve Battalion 101 could become killers under such circumstances, what group of men cannot?”
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Mirza’s 2024 Year in Books
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Horror and Psychology
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