Olaf Stapledon Quotes

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

Olaf Stapledon

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• In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Humanity
  • Animal
  • Poison