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“- ...our bodies aren’t our own. They belong to society. We are tools of society, so if we don’t mate, we’ll be persecuted.
- But why? It’s my body!
- Because, those are the rules of the Factory. We are slaves to our genes.”
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- But why? It’s my body!
- Because, those are the rules of the Factory. We are slaves to our genes.”
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“Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it—and Gawain’s posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“Some of you will have fine monuments by which the living may remember the evil done to you. Some of you will have only crude wooden crosses or painted rocks, while yet others of you must remain hidden in the shadows of history.”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“Critics of acceleration maintain that accelerating patterns of life are the reason for a commonly voiced sense of unease--the feeling that one is not "really" living. Everything is done all at once, faster and faster, yet no personal balance or meaning can be found. This implies the loss of contact with one's own self. We also no longer feel "at home" with ourselves and find it difficult to persist in any given activity because we are available at every moment; the phone always rings at the worst possible time.”
― Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
― Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
“At home, with work over and done, what reason is there...not to spend an hour, every evening, doing x? X might stand for whatever holds personal interest: reading..., spending time on a collection of interesting objects, taking a nighttime stroll on one's own or with one's partner. Do one thing, with full attention, for an hour a day. Or just spend fifteen minutes sitting on the sofa and don't do anything for a change: How's my posture? Does anything hurt? How do I feel? We can give free rein to fantasy and observe how we may come to terms with the acceleration of the world that we experience.”
― Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
― Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
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Children's, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Spirituality, Young-adult, weird-fiction, cult-classics, modern-classics, folklore, criticism, food-writing, cuisine, detective, cultural, short-stories, gothic-revival, medievalism, oral-history, microhistory, sociology, planetary-romance, dying-earth, and ecology
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