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Tove Jansson
“The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...”
Tove Jansson

Rebecca Solnit
“The map of utopias is cluttered nowadays with experiments by other names, and the very idea is expanding. It needs to open up a little more to contain disaster communities. These remarkable societies suggest that, just as many machines reset themselves to their original settings after a power outage, human beings reset themselves to something altruistic, communitarian, resourceful and imaginative after a disaster, that we revert to something we already know how to do. The possibility of paradise is already within us as a default setting.”
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Rebecca Solnit
“The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.”
Rebecca Solnit

John Milton
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
John Milton , Areopagitica

Leo Tolstoy
“Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.”
Leo Tolstoy

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