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“This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.”
― Jerome A. Miller, The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis

“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Only by massive denial, repression of affect, and severe numbing of our human faculties and sensitivities could a person not feel a sense of remorse, apprehension, and dread.”
― Jerry S. Piven, Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Moral Terror

“It's enough for me to want something for that thing to die. My destiny, however, is not powerful enough to prove deadly to just anything. It has the unfortunate disadvantage of being deadly only to those things I want.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet