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“If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.”
― The Noise of Time
― The Noise of Time
“Wie droomt over geweldloosheid als een reële mogelijkheid, roept vaak het meest extreme geweld op.”
― Met alle geweld
― Met alle geweld
“We were as we were” …”how could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time, and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and experience up until that moment”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.”
― The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
― The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
“Here is someone not set up for life's working out poorly, let alone for the impossible.But who is set up for the impossible that is going to happen? Who is set up for tragedy and the incomprehensibility of suffering? Nobody. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy-that is every man's tragedy.”
― American Pastoral
― American Pastoral
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