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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

by Kenzaburō Ōe

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Sep 21, 2026 12:06PM

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 21, 2026 10:47AM

Ben’s Quotes

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“That’s why, when I was first learning to walk like a human, I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out the difference between men and women. In my eyes, all humans looked exactly the same. I thought that things that look alike move alike. To put it a different way, I wondered how it was even possible to divide something with so many visible variants into just two groups.”
― Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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