"Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind."

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"He loathed letting her push his buttons; still, she had a valid point: cover-your-ass was a fundamental rule for survival even of the fittest."

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Literature1949

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— Napoleon I of France

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"As long as a society's best minds were occupied by theological questions, it was possible to speak of a given religion as the way of thinking of the whole social organism. All the matters which most a…"

— Czesław Miłosz

Literature1911–2004

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