“It was so much more complicated than it had to be, but the changeling had noted that this was true of every human biological function that wasn’t involuntary.”

— Joe Haldeman , book Camouflage

Source: Camouflage (2004), Chapter 24 (p. 133)

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“If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”

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Si nous n'avions point de défauts, nous ne prendrions pas tant de plaisir à en remarquer dans les autres.
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