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“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“We've submitted to the harsh instinct to crush those among us whose brokenness is most visible.
But simply punishing the broken- walking away from them or hiding them from sight- only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.”
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But simply punishing the broken- walking away from them or hiding them from sight- only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.”
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“...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”
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“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.”
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“Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearthstone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on board!- lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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