I still found myself conducting imaginary conversations with her, usually late at night, offering asides to the starless sky. I was selfish enough to miss her but sane enough to know we had never really been together. I was fully prepared
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“The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.”
― The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
― The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
“In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
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“There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world. That is jungle law. It is the way of the world when the world is thrown into chaos. It is our job to avert that chaos, to fight against it, to resist the urge to become savage. Because the problem with such law is that if you follow it, you are always fighting against someone.”
― The Sweetness of Tears
― The Sweetness of Tears
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