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Matthew Lowery
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State power will always be needed when self-restraint is weak, and those who neither value their liberties nor (in many cases) even know that they possess them, or how they came to do so, will not be good at defending them.
“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”
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“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
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“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
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