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They say the sea is actually black and that it merely reflects the blue sky above. So it was with me. I allowed you to admire yourself in my eyes. I provided a service. I listened and listened and listened. You stored yourself in me.
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“The way I see Africa, you don’t have to like it but you sure have to admit it’s out there. You have your way of thinking and it has its, and never the train ye shall meet!”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“If he’s honest, he’ll steal; if he’s humane, he’ll murder; if he’s faithful, he’ll deceive.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Grudges are for humans too small for forgiveness.”
― Chlorine
― Chlorine
“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow. It’s easy to point at other men, conveniently dead, starting with the ones who first scooped up mud from riverbanks to catch the scent of a source. Why, Dr. Livingstone, I presume, wasn’t he the rascal! He and all the profiteers who’ve since walked out on Africa as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb. I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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