A person should have as our goal complete agape (self-sacrificial love). The most we can expect from a society is to institute simple justice.
“Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.”
― Letters to a Young Artist
― Letters to a Young Artist
“Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.”
― Letters to a Young Artist
― Letters to a Young Artist
“People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”
― Olive Kitteridge
― Olive Kitteridge
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