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Capable of Monstrous Acts

Post date August 23, 2023

The most discomposing thing about people capable of monstrous acts is that they too enjoy art, they too read to their children, they too can be moved to tears by music.
Maria Popova, in Terror, Tenderness, and the Paradoxes of Human Nature: How a Marmoset Saved Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Lives from the Nazis [themarginalian.org] on The Marginalian

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