By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State
i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.
was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.
...falling in love could be achieved in a single wordโa glance.
At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.