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A philosopher I admire wrote that a coward is not a coward "on account of a cowardly heart or lungs or cerebrum ... he is like that because he has made himself into a coward by his actions ... A coward is defined by the deed he has done." I would wake up sweating, throw off my sheet, and stare into the hot, empty darkness. What if there was a collective will to cowardice, when men and women in their millions, a whole nationful, did cowardly..
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Over the weekend I have fallen in love with you again. I do not know why. Because it was wholly unnecessary.
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truth is strong medicine. It should be prescribed with great care,
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for societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember,
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You never know whether this is a form of instinctive blackmail, and therefore, to be resisted, or whether it is real illness brought on in the other person by what you live by and believe in.
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