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Cruelty. I don’t see the point.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
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Cruelty, bullying, selfishness.
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I cried recently, thinking about my late wife.
I am always disappointed in myself. I always feel that I haven’t achieved enough, or been as good a parent as I could be.
President Zelenskyy.
Every time one of my kids was born and I knew that they were healthy.
My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.
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