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From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world. But if you keep something hidden away, all tied up, it’s hard to summon it when you really
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“If we make our own meanings, God will oblige us to answer our own questions: He will leave us in the void without the comfort of his word.”
― Morality Play
― Morality Play
“if the only part of you that you can consciously experience is your consciousness’s experience and if all of that focus is 100% turned on to the dumbest fucking bullshit you’ve ever read in your life and that’s what you’re thinking about and since you’re all thoughts all the time that’s all that you are.”
― Several People Are Typing
― Several People Are Typing
“If you cannot imagine pain fully, neither can you fully imagine the resources you have in you to meet it and overcome it.”
― The Heaven Tree
― The Heaven Tree
“I can't move to pull on my clothes except that somehow I do, and I can't stand on two feet except that somehow I do, and I can't walk, there's no way I can walk, except I do. I take step after step after step after step.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“Perpetrators of human rights violations redefine morality and start believing that they can commit systematic murder and other atrocities "for the greater good." The distance between evil and sickness is not that great. The evil component of crimes against humanity is the moral failing. The sickness aspect is the defect in perspective, the distortion in mental processing that both precedes the evil and is intensified by it.”
― A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
― A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
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