Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the …

Ian Mcewan
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Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality. ✨ Only love and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against their murderers by Ian Mcewan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2001.
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