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The Happy Prince and Other Tales

by Oscar Wilde

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“While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, truth

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“Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: feel-good, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, pseudo, pseudoidealism, selfishness

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“Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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“Love is unconditional selflessness”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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“The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition — our human condition.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: agony-of-human, human-condition, human-nature, jeremy-griffith, understand-life, why-are-we-the-way-we-are

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