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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

by Nuar Alsadir

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The Archaeology of Knowledge & the Discourse on Language

by Michel Foucault

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The Minor Gesture (Thought in the Act)

by Erin Manning

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“Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. The pain that is thrust upon us let no man slow or speed or fix.”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

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“Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.”
― M. Scott Peck

tags: choice, emotion, feeling, insightful, love

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“We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.”
― Mary Parker Follett

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