And as he dug, he wept. He saw Hari's animated face, and numberless dead men, and the hatred on the faces of the sepoys . . . and it suddenly seemed to him that he could see clearly the basis of all conflict and misery, something mysterious which grows in men at the same time as hair and teeth and brainsand which reveals its presence by the utter and atrocious inflexibility of all human habits and beliefs, even including his own.
-J.G. Farrell
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