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"Listening to the Andy Serkis narrated audiobook for commuting" — Oct 14, 2026 05:56PM
"Listening to the Andy Serkis narrated audiobook for commuting" — Oct 14, 2026 05:56PM
It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.
“We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.”
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“It’s difficult to live in this country in this moment and not come to the conclusion that the principal concern of the modern American liberal is, at all times, not what one does or believes or supports or opposes, but what one is seen to be.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
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