“There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing. ”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
“Whatever view one takes of the outcome being affected by morale, it seems certain that the realm of illusion must be escaped before anything else.”
― Mortality
― Mortality
“There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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