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I listened to the music and the sounds from the streets and Daddy’s hand rested lightly on my hair. And everything seemed connected – the street sounds, and Ray’s voice and his piano and my Daddy’s hand and my sister’s silhouette and the
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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.”
― Multiculturalism
― Multiculturalism
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
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“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― No Exit
― No Exit
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