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“Our stars are not where we last admired them. Our homes crumble and we don't know which place to long for.”
― Ann Druyan, A Famous Broken Heart

tags: abandonment, home, loss

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“I may love him, I may love him, for he is a man, and I am only a beech-tree.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

tags: beech-tree, love, tree, unrequited-love

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“We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

tags: being-informed, education, government, voting, voting-rights

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“He was listening with pain of spirit to the overtone of weariness behind their frail fresh innocent voices. Even before they set out on life's journey they seemed weary already.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

tags: travel, weariness

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“PRAY TELL ME, WHY WERE YOU CONTENT TO LIVE IN THIS TINY LITTLE COUNTRY WHEN, AS YOU KNOW, YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING AND ANYBODY IN THE WORLD? “I don’t know about the world, not much; but in my part of the world I could make little miracles for ordinary people,” Granny replied sharply. “And I never wanted the world—just a part of it, a small part that I could keep safe, that I could keep away from storms. Not the ones of the sky, you understand: there are other kinds.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

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