I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be c…

J. M. Coetzee
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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats. ✨ J. M. Coetzee (2016). The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics], p.22, Princeton University Press
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