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“We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment, before she slips from our grasp and flees. As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or “the divinization of earthly politics”—and it is, to this day, one of the central features of nearly every religious system in the world.”
― God: A Human History
― God: A Human History
“People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.”
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“They offer me a space on the sofa next to them and the pain of them being so naturally kind is like appendicitis. I need to double over and hold myself because they are so kind and keep regenerating and recharging their kindness without any input from me. CROW”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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