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“We want the undiluted form of truth, when, upon hearing it, we would just dilute it again with our biased viewpoint.”

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“لوبورین با لحنی صبورانه که برای او نامعمول بود گفت:(( اوه، چرا، می فهمی. تو می دونی اون آدم بی ارزشیه، می دونی هیچی براش مهم نیست، و این که بلاخره یک روزی بهت خیانت می کنه. اما با این حال می خوای باورش داشته باشی. اون مثل مجسمه هائیه که توی کلیساها می بینی، تماما طلایی و درخشنده در ظاهر و از داخل فقط گچ.”

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“In Darwin's writing people, as animals, may be unhappy, but they are doing what they cannot help do; in Freud's account people are equally driven, but their unhappiness shows they are divided against themselves. They always seem to want more than, or something other than, their mere existence and the reproduction of their genetic inheritance. As though our nature is to demand of nature more than it can give. There is a fantasy life that is a theatre of excess.”

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Book:Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories
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“The assumption, which served Gandhi so well in dealing with individuals, that all human beings are more or less approachable and will respond to a generous gesture, needs to be seriously questioned. It is not necessarily true, for example, when you are dealing with lunatics. Then the question becomes: Who is sane? Was Hitler sane? And is it not possible for one whole culture to be insane by the standards of another?”

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Book:Reflections on Gandhi
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