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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

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Yesteryear

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Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot

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“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste

tags: attitude, democracy, government

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“People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

tags: crying, provocation, tears

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“The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare.”
― Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

tags: fantasy, nightmares

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“John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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