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“Besides, to be fair to him, his viciousness was perhaps not innate. From his earliest steps among men he had felt, then seen himself the object of jeers, condemnation, rejection. Human speech for him always meant mockery and curses. As he grew older he had found nothing but hatred around him. He had caught it. He had acquired the general viciousness. He had picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded.”
― Notre-Dame de Paris
― Notre-Dame de Paris
“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
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“Lois had gone out of my life (I should say that she had left my future—I could never eradicate her from my past, no matter how hard I tried)”
― Peace
― Peace
“And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“In such a view of society, however greatly you might wish to benefit from an endless supply of cheap labour, a wider range of cuisine or the salving of a generation’s conscience, you still would not have a right to wholly transform your society. Because that which you inherited that is good should also be passed on. Even were you to decide that some of the views or lifestyles of your ancestors could be improved upon, it does not follow that you should hand over to the next generation a society that is chaotic, fractured and unrecognisable.”
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
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