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“A man who dooms himself to this trial, this terrible school of life, does so voluntarily, in the hope that after the long trial he will achieve self-conquest, self-mastery to such a degree that he will, finally, through a whole life’s obedience, attain to perfect freedom—that is, freedom from himself—and avoid the lot of those who live their whole lives without finding themselves in themselves.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Open the front door
Hello I say to no one
I know no one's home”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Hello I say to no one
I know no one's home”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
“Thank you for being here for bearing witness to my vastness Through the years I’ve called you in and out of my orbit You, in your madness”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
“I let you know that I knew the true nature of your heart- that it was evil that it convinced me that darkness is real that the devil is a real devil and that monsters don’t always know they are monsters.”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
“We are projects of collective self-creation. What if we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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