want to argue with her, tell her that “sins of the flesh” is just a control mechanism—if you demonize a person’s pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can’t say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety
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“One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.”
― Aurora
― Aurora
“I had ways of consoling myself. Yes, there was food but there was beyond food, this idea I had of an oversoul of loneliness. A connectedness among the world's lonely that I could turn to when I was very low. There was a delicious romance in being utterly alone, & I told myself I was nobler for it, & that there was a purpose to my solitude, O there must be.”
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“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,”
― Caim
― Caim
“You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.”
― Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
― Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
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