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“Children are the strongest antidote to grief, not because of their unconditional love or their joy or because they take pain away, nothing like that, nothing like an inspirational quote embroidered on a pillow for your sofa. Children are the antidote because of their unrelenting needs, their continuous, voracious, narcissistic, selfish insistence on living, their unceasing demands that those needs, no matter how trivial, be met immediately and urgently.”
― Five
― Five
“At heart, Roosevelt’s progressivism stemmed from a conservative desire to see the old elite maintain authority rather than defer to a rising robber-baronocracy.”
― In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution
― In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution
“She had money and health and beauty, the triune of perfect starriness, which makes all men astronomers.
[of Clara Middleton]”
― The Egoist
[of Clara Middleton]”
― The Egoist
“the older I get, the more convinced I am that every hurt the world has ever known is somehow the fault of every person who ever lived. Maybe not directly and never entirely, but somehow, I fear, we own all of the world’s hurts together.”
― Theo of Golden
― Theo of Golden
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