Sometimes I wish my brain didn't always have to warn me about things. Stupid people seem to live such easy, carefree lives.

—L.H. Cosway in Still Life with Strings

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Cruelty is seldom forgotten. You feel it as a child. Somebody takes away your toy or thoughtlessly kicks over your sand castle. A beautiful boy walks into your life, sees something he doesn't like or doesn't understand, and painstakingly endeavors to make you feel how much he hates you, to be constantly aware of the flaws that provoke that hatred. And then you grow older and wiser, but you don't forget the cruelty. You can't forget it, because there is nothing stronger, nothing more palpable in the human brain than the memory of mistreatment.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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