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“You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.”
― The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
― The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
“Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
“he realized with a shock that the loss of innocence never stopped happening, that he was still losing it, that it was like a wound that never healed, and he would probably go on losing it, drop by drop, until the day he died.”
― Cold Is The Grave
― Cold Is The Grave
“Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“The opposite of freewill is not determinism, it's compulsion.”
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