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“union of opposites to form human nature was just what human beings told themselves to rationalize away their imperfections. Maybe it was just too neat, and the truth was that evil deeds trumped good ones. It didn’t matter, for example, that Hitler was kind to dogs.”
― The Golden House
― The Golden House
“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
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“Day alternated with night, the earth and sky taking turns being illuminated.”
― Faithful and Virtuous Night
― Faithful and Virtuous Night
“something about death that makes people want to live. We wanted to live that day, and I don’t blame us for it. Not anymore.”
― The Light We Lost
― The Light We Lost
“and I began to wonder if we were moral beings at all or simply savages who defined their private bigotries as necessary ethics, as the only ways to be.”
― The Golden House
― The Golden House
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