“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.”
André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician
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La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)
“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”
— Suzanne Collins, book Mockingjay
Source: Mockingjay
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