In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. Beware of Pity
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” 1984
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade. Moby Dick
“He ought to question them upon everything, and listen to their opinions, and afterwards form his own conclusions.” The Prince
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