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I’ve watched human beings fool around with love. Love of self mostly, but also love of place, work, ideas; love of friends, of male and female, parent and child. I can’t think of any human illusions more comic than those of love.

— Edgar Pangborn A Mirror for Observers (1954)

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I learned some years back that human nature is volatile stuff in a world full of lighted matches.

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One who can define kindness only as the absence of cruelty has surely not begun to understand the nature of either.

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I notice men themselves have never invented a god capable of understanding them.

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