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BRIGHT cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
YELLOW NOTATION = Impactful use of language, usu. figurative
Classic intro. Tells you everything you need to know: this is a setting in the future, or at least a very odd place where things are not congruent with our modern way of life — where clocks do not have a 13.
“It is especially challenging for traumatized people to discern when they are actually safe and to be able to activate their defenses when they are in danger.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
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“If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.”
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