“There is a phrase in the Jewish tradition, Yimakh shemo, which means, 'May his name be erased.' It is an insult - or really, a curse - reserved for those who have done the gravest harm. May their name be blotted out. May they, and the hurt they have created, be forgotten.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.”
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“Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner -- what is it?
if not the intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming.”
― Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner -- what is it?
if not the intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming.”
― Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
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