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Before We Say Goodbye

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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“The perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other”
― Kate Stewart, Loving the White Liar

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“It's funny to think that Christmas — a time known for its joyful togetherness — can be the loneliest time of the year for some.”
― Giovanna Fletcher, Christmas With Billy and Me

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“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.”
― Robert Higgs

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, evil, freedom, gang, government, individualism, knowledge, libertarian, liberty, mafia, matrix, philosophy, politics, rationality, reason, self-knowledge, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thieves, truth, useful-idiots, voluntaryism, voting

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“The things we remember most clearly are always those that bring us shame.”
― Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

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