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“I have often moralized on the repulsive form charity always assumes! Here was a home for deserving women and yet what a mockery the name was. The floor was bare, and the little wooden tables were sublimely ignorant of such modern beautifiers as varnish, polish and table-covers.”
― Ten Days in a Mad-House
― Ten Days in a Mad-House
“My warm affections finding no return... were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.”
― Mathilda
― Mathilda
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
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“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place”
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
“Everyone dies of something. And we can't bury ourselves. This means that for every human being who has ever lived, someone must discover and dispose of the body. It is mistaken to attribute this harm only to suicides. It is part of our humanity that we - suicides and non-suicides alike - must inflict this harm on others. Once we have been given the dubious gift of life, we are destined to burden someone with the disposal of our dead body.”
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
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