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Siena Canales

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“Absence, the highest form of presence.”
― James Joyce

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“Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the name of God. The naked will to power seemed always to walk in the wake of a hymn.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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“It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

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“Four of the roses were on fire.
They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets
and howling colossal intimacies
from the back of their fused throats.
- XXVII. MITWELT”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

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“What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so close to reaching heaven that God himself felt threatened.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

tags: history, humanity, language, religion

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