Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

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The more we get used to something, the more we become numb to its horrors. We might not notice it any more, but we’ve stopped thinking about it and can even begin to justify it.

Source: In The Woods

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