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“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“The immune system, the hypothalamus, the ventro-medial frontal cortices, and the Bill of Rights have the same root cause.”
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“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”
― Clockwork Prince
― Clockwork Prince
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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