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Book cover for Les Misérables
It is possible to feel a certain indifference about the death penalty, not to declare yourself, to say yes and no, so long as you have not seen a guillotine with your own eyes. But if you do come across one, it has a violent impact. You are ...more
Sina Iravanian
A few paragraphs further, Victor Hugo continues with: "Death depends on God alone. By what right do men meddle with this matter of destiny?" These paragraphs depict his deep concern and hatred of death penalty, with such profound descriptions of the horror caused by the sight of a guillotine. Needless to say guillotine was still a much more humane progress compared to the methods used prior than that such as beheading with axe which was more painful and took a lot of time for the condemned person to die.
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مهدی اخوان ثالث
“لحظه ی دیدار نزدیک است
باز من دیوانه ام ، مستم
باز می لرزد ، دلم ، دستم
باز گویی در جهان دیگری هستم
های ! نخراشی به غفلت گونه ام را ، تیغ
های ، نپریشی صفای زلفکم را ، دست
و آبرویم را نریزی ، دل
ای نخورده مست
لحظه ی دیدار نزدیک است”
مهدی اخوان ثالث / Mehdi Akhavan Sales

Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost

Arthur Schopenhauer
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

Arthur Schopenhauer
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Any reduction of the world around us can have explosives consequences since it rules out some sources of uncertainty; it drives us to a misunderstanding of the fabric of the world. For instance, you may think that radical Islam (and its values) are your allies against the threat of Communism, and so you may help them develop, until they send two planes into downtown Manhattan.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan - The Impect Of The Highly Improbable

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