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Roberto Werling

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“And as his body thaws into hers, he is no longer sure where her pleasure ends and his begins, for bodies and minds deliquesce into something of a stupor.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

tags: evocative, healing, hope, mystery, pain, passing, powerful, romance, wisdom, witty

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“Maybe it hadn't entered my head at all. Maybe it had just brushed past me, like someone easing by in a dark room, the face lost in shadow, my thoughts lost in another conversation, though something in her movement or perfume is disturbingly familiar, though how familiar is impossible to tell because by the time I realize she's someone I should know she's already gone, deep into the din, beyond the bar, taking with her any chance of recognition. Though she hasn't left. She's still there. Embracing shadows.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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“A culture that has a moral compass which always points toward the elite’s conception of good—or a society’s default conceptions of “good”—has a broken moral compass. Compasses have value because they point toward a single magnetic North, not a moving position.”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

tags: agnosticism, atheism, cultural-reactor, fortifying, ideas, learning, life, mistakes, rebuilding, traditional-cultures

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“No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.”
― Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

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“And now insane men adrift in a world without order formed a line at the door. They rendered unto her every evil act brought into this world by God. They fell upon her with brutality that none of them at any other time would have thought possible. There was once no scenario that would lead them to behave this way. At any other time in their life there were no words or arguments that could convince them to treat a woman with such wanton disregard. No one now asked, “What brought me to this?” Not one of them asked, “Who are these men? How did we end up here, doing these things? Who am I now?”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta