"Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?"

-- Margaret Atwood

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“Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a new life comes into being with a complete genetic blueprint. The sex is determined. The blood type is determined. The moment that I learned the unborn was not part of the woman's body but its own individual human being, I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.”
“The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr â€” smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.”

Source : Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.152, 1st World Publishing
“I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.”
“Even in the most horrendous situations there is always something to smile about.”

Source : "The 5-minute Interview: Stella Vine: 'There Have Been a Few Times'". The Independent, November 28, 2005.
“Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.”
“People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.”

Source : Jennifer Chiaverini (2013). “An Elm Creek Quilts Companion: New Fiction, Traditions, Quilts, and Favorite Moments from the Beloved Series”, p.12, Penguin
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
“Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.”

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