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“Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
“We write to make sense of it all.”
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“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To that extent, it can be (for all our good intentions) an impertinent- if not inappropriate- response. To set aside the sympathy we extend to others beset by war and murderous politics for a reflection on how our privileges are located on the same map as their suffering, and may- in ways we might prefer not to imagine- be linked to their suffering, as the wealth as some may imply the destitution of others, is a task for which the painful, stirring images supply only an initial spark.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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