How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

Margaret Atwood
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How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. This quote by Edgar Allen Poe is an example of that. It is very easy to believe that what we are doing is good and that we are doing it for the right reasons. However, this doesn’t mean that it is the right thing to do.

Source: The Handmaids Tale

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