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“I would much prefer to see endings as the womb within which beginnings are born.”
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“I am nothing like you, and yet I feel more myself with you.”
― A Marvellous Light
― A Marvellous Light
“It's cold today, but in a spring way, and I love you.”
― Letters to Vera
― Letters to Vera
“The philosopher Roberto Unger introduced me to the direct idea that our roots can lie in the future—and that in a democracy, “prophecy speaks louder than memory.”
― Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
― Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
“That’s what commitments are—alternatives to self-obsession. Commitments free us to dedicate ourselves to something bigger than ourselves—to something beyond our shells. The French philosopher Jacques Maritain said that the meaning of life is “self-mastery for the purpose of self-giving.” This is the challenge of growing up—to turn the corner from self-mastery to self-giving. What is the moment at that corner—between inwardness, growth, and concerted self-development and outwardness, public interestedness, and other-centeredness? Commitment.”
― Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
― Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
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