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“Our common preference as a species is for difference rather than unity. (Vive la différence. Vive la guerre.) Nobody designed us to be this way—it just happens to be how we blundered into the nightmare of being. Life preys on life, per Schopenhauer”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror