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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

“We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact. Hjalmar Söderberg, Doktor Glas, 1905”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath

“Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See