"Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change."

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Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.150, tredition

Lafcadio Hearn

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“If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.”
“It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.”

Source : John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.”

Source : Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”
“Itâ€™s so difficult to describe depression to someone whoâ€™s never been there, because itâ€™s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But itâ€™s that cold absence of feelingâ€” that really hollowed-out feeling.”
“A healer of others, himself diseased.”
“All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.189, Northwestern University Press
“We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.”
“The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.”

Source : 'Du vrai, du beau, et du bien' (Sorbonne lecture, 1818).

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