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The Man with the Golden Arm (50th Anniversary Edition): 50th Anniversary Critical Edition

by Nelson Algren

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“I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

tags: beyond-good-and-evil

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“Dividing earth and sky
is not the right way
to think about this wholeness.
It only allows one to live
at a more precise address--
were I to be searched for
I'd be found much faster.
My distinguishing marks
are rapture and despair.

From 'Sky', in the collection 'Miracle Fair”
― Wislawa Szymborska

tags: despair, poetry, rapture

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“We pass through elementary school, high school, and maybe college, and in one sense every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance. Education reinforces the habit of seeing the world through a certain lens. We”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

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“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone di pensieri

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“I cannot withdraw into myself. I exist, outside myself and everywhere in the world. There is not an inch of my path which does not encroach on the path of another: there is no way of being that can prevent me from overflowing myself at every moment. This life that I weave with my own substance, it offers other men a thousand unknown faces, it crosses impetuously their fate.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others

tags: interconnectedness, interdependence, relational-self, self-transcendence

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