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Michael Ondaatje
“There is God only in the desert, he wanted to acknowledge that now. Outside of this there was just trade and power, money and war.”
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“You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else’s poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.”
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“How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized”
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“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”
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“This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia. Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia.”
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