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“And I won't want to stop feeling the way I do. I don't want to give up knowing, in this very visceral way, what I know about people and what they can do to you. About countries and what they can do to you. I don't want ever to be wholly relaxed, wholly at home, in a world of flowing fresh water built on the parched pain of others. The world itches, and so it should.”
― A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
― A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
“Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”
― Essence of Christianity
― Essence of Christianity
“a good story doesn’t just copy life, it pushes back on it.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Non-Aristotelian logic deals with existencial/operacional probabilities. Aristotelian logic deals with certainties, and in the lack of certainties throughout most of life, Aristotelian logic subliminally programs us to ivent fictitious certainties.
That rush for fictitious certainties explains most of the Ideologies and damn near all Religions on the planet, I think.”
― Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World
That rush for fictitious certainties explains most of the Ideologies and damn near all Religions on the planet, I think.”
― Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World
“A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet after he had been spat on; she would comb his tangled hair; she would look into his embittered eyes. The more lacerated his soul, the more revolting and contemptible he became to the world, the more she would love him. She would run after a truck; she would wait in queues on Kuznetsky Most, or even by the camp boundary fence, desperate to hand over a few sweets or an onion; she would bake shortbread for him on an oil stove; she would give years of her life just to be able to see him for half an hour...
Not every woman you sleep with can be called a wife.”
― Life and Fate
Not every woman you sleep with can be called a wife.”
― Life and Fate
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