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I am beginning to learn that life-altering news is often like a premature birth: ill-timed, catching someone unaware, emotionally unprepared & often where they shouldn’t be:
“l’“io”, il soggetto vuole essere e che, in un certo senso, è: risultato, almeno in apparenza, di una scelta programmata da parte del soggetto, espressione della sua volontà di mostrarsi.”
― Pitturare il volto: Il Trucco, l’Arte, la Moda (I nodi)
― Pitturare il volto: Il Trucco, l’Arte, la Moda (I nodi)
“We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter
“los que ganan todas las batallas no son realmente profesionales; los que consiguen que se rindan impotentes los ejércitos ajenos sin luchar son los mejores maestros del Arte de la Guerra.”
― El arte de la guerra
― El arte de la guerra
“In America you had the forced removal of the native onto reservations coupled with slavery followed by segregation. Imagine all three of those things happening to the same group of people at the same time. That was apartheid.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
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