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“He had been in forests in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh... You could run into tigers and elephants in those places. Here, in this dry, deciduous woodland, the most dangerous animal was man.”

Book:Remember Death

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“We call them monsters because we feel they are far away from us, because we want them to be 'different,'" Goran said in his seminars. "And instead they're like us in every respect. But we prefer to remove the idea that someone like us is capable of so much. And we do so in part to absolve our own nature".”

Human Nature Monster

Book:The Whisperer

Source: The Whisperer

“Angels and devils are the same people.”

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Author:K. J. Parker

“Humanity will search for meaning in everything except the obvious”

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Author:Abyssino

“We crave warmth we never received, cling to kindness as if it were love, and act cold to protect ourselves. Yet when someone shows us kindness, we feel it as if they love us — though they’re simply being kind. And so the cycle goes on.”

Philosophy Human Nature

Author:Chris Robbie

“Why would anyone underestimate themselves when everyone has something to bring to the table? And why would anyone overestimate themselves when perfection is an illusion?”

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Author:Animhat

“I heard exactly the same thing, a long time ago to be sure, from a doctor,' the elder remarked. 'He was then an old man, and unquestionably intelligent. He spoke just as frankly as you, humorously, but with a sorrowful humor. "I love mankind," he said, "but I am amazed at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons. In my dreams," he said, "I often went so far as to think passionately of serving mankind, and, it may be, would really have gone to the cross for people if it were somehow suddenly necessary, and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone even for two days; this I know from experience. As soon as someone is there, close to me, his personality oppresses my self-esteem and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I can begin to hate even the best of men: one because he takes too long eating his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps blowing his nose. I become the enemy of people the moment they touch me," he said. "On the other hand, it has always happened that the more I hate people individually, the more ardent becomes my love for humanity as a whole."''But what is to be done, then?”

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Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

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