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“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Death is the mother of beauty.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“The new cavities in my heart search for things to burn. They drive me to burn things and I can stop only when everything is in ashes.”
― The Memory Police
― The Memory Police
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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