The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. - Eric Hoffer

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Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

Eric Hoffer

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

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