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“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
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