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1 " And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy of suffering, that profoundly dishonest emotion which derives from the foolish notion that only the oppressed can achieve righteousness or - more importantly - write anything profound. "
― Theodore Dalrymple , The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World
2 " Maybe I naively subscribed to the foolish notion that my love could save him. Whatever the reason, I entered the room and sank to the carpet beside that sad and broken boy. "
― A. Meredith Walters , Find You in the Dark (Find You in the Dark, #1)