Cynthia Jane
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One of the Journal pages, peeking from beneath sheets of numbers and graphs, had the headline: WHITES’ GREAT HOPE? BARACK OBAMA AND THE DREAM OF A COLOR-BLIND AMERICA.
“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.”
― The Art of Eating
― The Art of Eating
“We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.”
― Serve It Forth
― Serve It Forth
“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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