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My Dear Hemlock

by Tilly Dillehay (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 20, 2026 06:32PM

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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“Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind.”
― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

tags: change, mind, thinking, waiting

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done in my life was stay right by your side, preparing you to be an ancestor.”
― George M. Johnson, We Are Not Broken

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