Mark Rowlands Quotes
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Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.
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What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.
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In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us.
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In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.
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What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.
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Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple
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