“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
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“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
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“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
― Flight To Arras: A Gripping Classic – French Aviators Defy Impossible Odds During the Fall of France in World War 2
― Flight To Arras: A Gripping Classic – French Aviators Defy Impossible Odds During the Fall of France in World War 2
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