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In an immigrant society, which has, by definition, chosen to reject the past, faith in the future is not a matter of choice. When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
In an immigrant society, which has, by definition, chosen to reject the past, faith in the future is not a matter of choice. When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
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“The greatest happiness possible to a man ... is to become civilized, to know the pageant of the past, to love the beautiful, to have just ideas of values and proportions, and then retaining his animal spirits and appetites, to live in a wilderness, - J. Frank Dobie”
― Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION
― Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION
“If Sartre was right that hell is other people—then other people in a tour bus traveling through Poland may be whatever they call the place below hell … or at least one corner of it.”
― Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
― Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
“She was one of those people who was stingy without motive or reason even when they gain nothing from it. - Willa Cather”
― Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
― Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
“The true dwellers help you embrace
the darkness in yourself and wield it at will.
It is never belittling but empowering.”
― Born A Free Spirit
the darkness in yourself and wield it at will.
It is never belittling but empowering.”
― Born A Free Spirit
“The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
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