"Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same."

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Source : Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

Tao Lin

#Belief Quotes #Human Life Quotes #Humans Quotes

“One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."”
“Layer by layer art strips life bare.”

Source : Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.44, Archipelago
“I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.”
“To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things...”
“We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.12
“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”
“The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.”
“Mind is a captive of the body.”

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