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“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”
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“Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.”
― In the Skin of a Lion
― In the Skin of a Lion
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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“Whenever someone does something nice for me, I feel intensely aware of how strange and sad it is to know someone.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
Bri’s 2025 Year in Books
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