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I think we should maybe have the courage to identify ourselves with and humanize the torturer. Maybe we should look at ourselves, instead of saying “never again,” which does not work. We could maybe try to ask a new question, as well as a very old one: “How is it possible?” We may find the answers in ourselves.

—François Bizot, ethnologist captured by the Khmer Rouge in 1971 and author of the memoir The Gate

And everything

and nothing

is as sacred as we want it to be.

—Beth Orton, “Central Reservation” lyrics