“I am convinced that joy exists, convinced that the invisible exists more than the visible, and that joy is beyond sorrow, and beauty is beyond horror.”
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“Men lived without cares or labor, eating only acorns, wild fruit, and honey that dripped from trees, drinking the milk of sheep and goats, never growing old, dancing, and laughing much. Death, to them, was no more terrible than sleep. Then her sceptre passed to Uranus …”
― The Centaur
― The Centaur
“I have come to recognize that the gift of expression, whether in speech, or in writing, or in any art at all, is totally and entirely inferior to a certain indescribable genius for life.”
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“The company was taking the oil from our forests and contaminating our water sources. The oil was taken to the cities so that the white people could drive cars and fly planes while Waorani women were degraded in the dusty shadows of the barbed wire, left to beg for water.”
― We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
― We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
“Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere
they find them,”
― The Wretched of the Earth
they find them,”
― The Wretched of the Earth
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