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“Hell is—other people!”
― No Exit
― No Exit
“...when the exhaustive exegesis of God's Word doesn't create people transformed into the image of Jesus, we have missed the forest for the trees.”
― 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
― 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Black Coffee with White Friends: Cream & Sugar Book Club
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Our bookclub will be reading books that (hopefully) do the following: 1. Allow us to release the ideas we hold about those who are not like us. 2. R ...more
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