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Jeff Mccurry

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“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything... but an end in itself.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: love

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“There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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“Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

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“I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man

tags: feelings, growth, thoughts

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“Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.”
― J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals

tags: animal-cruelty, holocaust, nazism

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