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“The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.”
― Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
― Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
“No one seems to have noticed that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.”
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
“It was easier to manipulate someone if they didn’t perceive you as a threat.”
― Darling Rose Gold
― Darling Rose Gold
“[...] I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity's sake, and they still saw communism as the road to utopia. I wonder if any of the people spouting these messages ever really grasped, in later years, the depths of the misery for which they were responsible.”
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“If it happens, God lets it happen, and when we say 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.”
― The Green Mile
― The Green Mile
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