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“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
― Marvin Heemeyer

“Depression [verb]

1. to put on
your best outfit
and feel
like you're dressing
a wound.”
― Andrea Gibson

“She had aged more than four years. She had never had very good teeth, and now had lost two, just back of the upper eyeteeth, so that the gaps showed when she smiled. Her skin no longer had the fine taut surface of youth, and her hair, pulled back neatly was dull.

Shevek saw clearly that Takver had lost her young grace, and looked a plain, tired woman near the middle of her life. He saw this more clearly than anyone else could have seen it. He saw everything about Takver in a way that no one else could have seen it, from the standpoint of years of intimacy and years of longing. He saw her as she was.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.”
― Carl Schmitt