On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts
Never to put one hand to anything, on which I could throw my whole self;
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
"If I have memory, if I have being, I am innocent. I intended no ill; but my folly, indirectly and remotely, may have caused it; but what words are these!
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amus
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