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“The movement from loneliness to solitude should lead to a gradual conversion from an anxious reaction to a loving response. — Henri J. M. Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life ( Doubleday, 1975)”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life

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“Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

tags: education, knowledge, learning, right-to-education, right-to-information

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“…the only thing she feared was compromise, the soothing voice that licks down rage until it is nothing but a small smooth lump in your hand.”
― Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

tags: anger, compromise, feminism, influence, power, rage

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“I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

tags: distopian, science-fiction

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“Suddenly it seems memory is impossible.
Who can say what fills the coffin of the moment?
Are we, then, like moths at a candle, glowing
longer than life is left in us? I don’t know
how much longer it is possible to stay in a poem
like this one, sifting through the ashes of the future.

—Richard Jackson, from “Possibility,” Heartwall (University of Massachuetts Press, 2000)”
― Richard Jackson, Heartwall

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