One of the functions of our villain must be to allow us to adopt the role of the victim and claim our moral superiority. We project onto him all those things we are incapable of recognizing in ourselves, things we demonize according to our particular interests.
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The Angel's Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
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“All you have to do is convince the sanctimonious that they are free of all sin and they’ll start throwing stones, or bombs, with gusto. In fact, it doesn’t take much, because they can be convinced with the bare minimum of encouragement and excuses.
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The Angel's Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
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“Martín, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying flan and staring at widows’ necks.
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The Angel's Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
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she had the serious air of one who has learned not to expect anything but bad news.
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These writers, all enthralled by the self, are hectically caught up in signalling the breaking of new ground when, in reality, they are just trying to dress up their limitations as cool, daring, new, adventurous.
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Choice: A Novel (Neel Mukherjee)
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taking antidepressants, going running, going to the gym, going for therapy – that these actions, within a person’s power, are going to solve everything,
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everything in the world makes one think that the solution lies within private choices, personal responsibility, that it is the individual at the centre of things, that personal agency is everything –

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Choice: A Novel (Neel Mukherjee)
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Choice: A Novel (Neel Mukherjee)
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Auden’s lines to Luke, ‘If equal affection cannot be/Let the more loving one be me’,
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