"It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters."

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For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

— Donna Tartt