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I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.
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good-intentions
self-centered
looking-back
wound
hurt
evil
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Haruki Murakami |
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[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
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nature
barbarism
customs
self-centered
law
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George Bernard Shaw |
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It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,
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universe
self-centered
inspriational
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.
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living
joys-of-the-dead
dear
nothing-ends
jonathan-rebeck
laura-durand
michael-morgan
self-centered
unworthy
fragile
worthy
righteous
happy-endings
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Peter S. Beagle |