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Ben Levin
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For they suggest that appeals to an unchanging human nature, in the context of defending a traditional pattern of family love and fear, may posit an immutable bedrock where reality presents us with many possibilities for change. If many
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“We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.”
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“The point of this language of “intention” and “personal responsibility” is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. “Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best.”
― Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
― Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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