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Rose Ocean
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In thinking about race, it is interesting to ask, how have we come to know what we know about race? Indeed, how have we come to know anything about anything? What does it mean to “know” something? How can we be sure that what we “know”
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“In video games you sometimes run into what they call a side quest, and if you don't manage to figure it out you can usually just go back into the normal world of the game and continue on toward your objective. I felt like I couldn't find my way back to the world now: like I was somebody locked in a meaningless side quest, in a stuck screen.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
“But until now I did not understand; everything was in a sort of mist. And I believe it all arose from believing that the brain is in the head. It's not so at all; it comes with the wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea.”
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“If a person’s behavior doesn’t make sense to you, it is because you are missing a part of their context. It’s that simple.”
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“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
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