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This is what is meant when climate change is called an “existential crisis”—a drama we are now haphazardly improvising between two hellish poles, in which our best-case outcome is death and suffering at the scale of twenty-five Holocausts,
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“Once, he said to her: "You are like me, you are different from most people. You are Kamala, nothing else, and inside of you, there is a peace and refuge, to which you can go at every hour of the day and be at home at yourself, as I can also do. Few people have this, and yet all could have it.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“What T. S. Eliot said: When all is said and done the writer may realize that he has wasted his youth and wrecked his health for nothing.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“What Simone Weil said: Attention without object is a supreme form of prayer.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage”
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“Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.”
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