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""He must do something. For somebody. That was the secret. It was often the secret with him: to do something for somebody. It took him out of himself, it gave him, sympathetically, other people's feelings. It made him feel generous, made him feel worthy, that he had a right to ask something of life."" — 29 minutes ago
""He must do something. For somebody. That was the secret. It was often the secret with him: to do something for somebody. It took him out of himself, it gave him, sympathetically, other people's feelings. It made him feel generous, made him feel worthy, that he had a right to ask something of life."" — 29 minutes ago
“I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.”
― I Am Not a Serial Killer
― I Am Not a Serial Killer
“APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf.
'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.'
'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.'
'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?”
― I Am Not a Serial Killer
'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.'
'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.'
'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?”
― I Am Not a Serial Killer
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.”
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