There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult’s sense of pitch.
– Edmund de Waal
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- The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. – Edmund de Waal
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- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
- Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful. – Frans de Waal
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- May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you. – Herculine Barbin
- May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you. – Herculine Barbin
- It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented. – Laini Taylor
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