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Rasul Palmer

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“Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.”
― Edward T. Hall

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“Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among them. They weren't used to this. Kings were supposed to sweep into a room majestically - not suddenly appear without anyone seeing their arrival.”
― John Flanagan, The Kings of Clonmel

tags: kings

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“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

tags: jealousy, materialism, want, yearning

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“when I enter the Netherworld will rest be scarce? I shall lie there sleeping all down the years! ‘Let my eyes see the sun and be sated with light! The darkness is hidden, how much light is there left? Sii 15’ When may the dead see the rays of the sun?”
― Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

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“Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings