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Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5)

by C.J. Sansom

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Oct 29, 2011 01:10PM

“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others”
― Iain M. Banks, Complicity

tags: complicity, dystopia, greed, indictment, morality, nihilistic

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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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