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Before long, all I thought about was what it would be like to be one of them. To be with boys my own age, fighting and running and larking about. And to learn to ride and shoot, instead of sitting in the chamber all day with women and
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“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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