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a self-created male god who has no mother is a totally insupportable concept. It is, to say the least, not supernatural but merely unnatural.
“It is difficult to convey an idea of the degree of proud and blissful expansion to which the sad and hideous visage of Quasimodo had attained during the transit from the Palais de Justice, to the Place de Grève. It was the first enjoyment of self-love that he had ever experienced. Down to that day, he had known only humiliation, disdain for his condition, disgust for his person. Hence, deaf though he was, he enjoyed, like a veritable pope, the acclamations of that throng, which he hated because he felt that he was hated by it. What mattered it that his people consisted of a pack of fools, cripples, thieves, and beggars?”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“This is what you will work at: everyone shall become related to one another, so that it will become a single family, consisting of every people on earth; and this is what will unite them, the Good Message and the Power and the Peace.”
― Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace
― Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace
“What is it about Europeans that makes them so magical that they affect other peoples’ rights permanently, like a kind of reverse Midas touch? Why the first European? Why not the first African? Or Maya? Or Chinese? Racism is alive and well in the Canadian legal system: it just hides behind clouds of liberal language and legal sophistry.”
― Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace
― Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace
“Aren’t humans absurd? I suppose we like praise for its own sake. The way children like ice cream. It’s an inferiority complex, that’s what it is. Praise assuages our insecurities. And ridiculously so. How could I rise in my own opinion? Don’t I know myself—”
― Roadside Picnic
― Roadside Picnic
“You are going to be hanged. ‘Tis a very simple matter, gentlemen and honest bourgeois! as you treat our people in your abode, so we treat you in ours! The law which you apply to vagabonds, vagabonds apply to you. ‘Tis your fault if it is harsh.”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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