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But I do think it is possible for people to know that what they do is evil and do it all the same. And I think that is possible whether they are legally sane or not. All these debates about Hitler’s sanity—of course he wasn’t sane. But that
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“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
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“From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.”
― Saving Fish from Drowning
― Saving Fish from Drowning
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei”
― The Joy Luck Club
-An-mei”
― The Joy Luck Club
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
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