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“And yet, and yet. This place exerts an elemental pull on me. There is no end of fascinations. People talk all the time, calling…

— Teju Cole

“These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered…

— Plutarch

“No... I'll stay," said Eragon shakily, wiping his mouth. He avoided looking at the gruesome sight before them. "Who could have done..." He could…

— Christopher Paolini

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

“His heart...responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the…

— Lauren Groff

“No one must ever fancy another human being so much more evil than themselves that killing was justified.”

— Jessica Amanda Salmonson

“Some actually start to become comforted by the feelings of hate and revenge.”

— Lee Vickers

“Why does someone, in the midst of your worst suffering, decide the time has come to drive home, disguised in the form of character…

— Philip Roth

“My revulsion turned to grief that my own people could give the hate stare, could shrivel men’s souls, could deprive humans of rights they…

— John Howard Griffin

“It is a shame for anyone to be well-known for righteousness. It is a great disgrace to feel distress at the injustice of the…

— Omar Khayyám

“Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and cruel, compassionate…

— Louise Penny

“Being Mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how we view those who mistreat us.”

— James L. Ferrell