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For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been a collision. I feel too much, sense too much, am exhausted by the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident
― The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
― Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan
― Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
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Shawna’s 2025 Year in Books
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