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“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and the lightest parts of ourselves are scattered to the wind.”

Book:All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother

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All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother

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“People have always believed in miracles... It's in their nature to believe things can always get better in some mysterious way. If everything else fails, higher forces will help them when the time comes. And people do that because they know the very essence of life is...that from the very beginning, at any point...everything can go wrong.”

Life Human Nature Miracles Misfortune Higher Forces

Book:Daytripper

Source: Daytripper

“For that’s how it is, we cover up our mistakes and failings, we invent stories that put ourselves in a more favorable light. Self-deception is perhaps the most human thing of all.”

Human Nature

Book:Spring

Source: Spring

“one could starve to death on an enviable job — for mountain wind, for stars among pine trees, or the call of a wood-thrush to his mate.”

Spirituality Nature Human Nature

Book:Lost Island

Source: Lost Island

“When I was little, people often misread the Kanji in my name as Mon-De... So the boys flipped it around and called me De-Mon, as in The Devil. Demons plague humanity, but I wasn't doing anything wrong. Ever since, I've been uncomfortable with how people cheerfully unite against perceived enemies".”

Humanity Enemy Human Nature Perception Criticism Aliens Human Race Demon

Book:デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション 4

Source: デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション 4

“A time before Flanders and Auschwitz had shown that, given the means of killing and the opportunity to use them, the species, far from being a pinnacle in creation, was actually lower on the scale than all others in its genus or family.”

Human Nature Humanity And Society

Book:Where My Heart Used to Beat

Source: Where My Heart Used to Beat

“No doubt arrogance will produce submission; and there are men who take other men at the price those other men put upon themselves.”

Politics Human Nature Arrogance

Book:The Way We Live Now

Source: The Way We Live Now

“How can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature? They appeal to different individuals, and they probably show a tendency to alternate in point of time. The Moralist and the Revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite under the Moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are are work and fresh dynamite is being tamped un place to blow Marx to the moon.”

Humor Human Nature Revolution Institutions Essays Marxism Marx Moralism

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The comfort of religion is like morphine: blissful, addictive, and built on the promise of escape from pain it helped create”

God Religion Atheism Atheist Crisis Of Faith

Author:Abyssino

“I even think that the best definition of a man is an ungrateful creature on two legs.”

Human Nature Just Too Real

Book:Notes from Underground

Source: Notes from Underground

“Desire and greed are human traits. We are the Beast. And yet.... I wish”

Human Nature

Book:Hunted

Source: Hunted

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