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The compulsively superstitious person is also very often a serious believer in fate; that was the case with Perry. He was here, and embarked on the present errand, not because he wished to be but because fate had arranged the matter;
Such a romantic notion, but to me this just signals a lack of accountability for one’s actions. Given that he’s going to commit a murder, I would say that’s significant.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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“I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.”
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He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.”
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“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
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“I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.”
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“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
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