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“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“when a journalist from the West asks us questions, it is seldom in order to help us. [...] For the native, objectivity is always directed against him.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
“If we are to be more than what we have been, there's so much that we need to say. Salvation through honesty, I guess.”
― Patron Saints of Nothing
― Patron Saints of Nothing
“your hand pressing all that
riotous black sleep into
the quiet form of daylight
and its sunny disregard for
the luminous volutions, oh!”
― Meditations in an Emergency
riotous black sleep into
the quiet form of daylight
and its sunny disregard for
the luminous volutions, oh!”
― Meditations in an Emergency
“Life is a struggle each person will ultimately lose; the question is how one acts with that knowledge.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
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