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Here among the clouds, humanity had worn the trappings of godhood for so long they had almost forgotten they were animals, though still they snarled and bit.
“I just want everything to be like it was," Eileen said. "And for us to be young again and live near each other, and nothing to be different."
Alice was smiling sadly. "But if things are different, can we still be friends?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
Alice was smiling sadly. "But if things are different, can we still be friends?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“The deepest reason for this is, and what is essential to human existence, that the human being is individuum and, as such, at one and the same time itself and the whole human race, so that the whole race participates in the individual and the individual in the whole race.”
― The Kierkegaard Collection
― The Kierkegaard Collection
“All these people are suffering without the tools to end their own suffering. And we who have the tools refuse to do anything about it because the people who take action are criticized? Oh, that's all very well, but then, what action do I ever take? In my defense, I'm very tired, and I don't have any good ideas.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
― Babel
― Babel
“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
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