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“Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.
-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”
― A Memory of Light
-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”
― A Memory of Light
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
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“we are tempted to erase the unsettling elements of the other's alterity-the ways in which the other does not coincide with our fantasies-because we imagine that, by so doing, we manage to stabilize our lives. Rather than allowing ourselves to be surprised by the other, rather than allowing the other to touch us in unforeseen and potentially enlivening ways, we resort to idealizations that seem to guarantee the reliability of our life-worlds. In this manner, we deprive ourselves of the kinds of transformations that can only ensue from a courageous encounter with the other's irreducible alterity.”
― A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living
― A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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