“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”
— Yann Martel, book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi
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