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— Maggie Nelson"In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of."
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Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.
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There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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