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The Intruder
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Of course, my mother wouldn’t want me to get counseling. Because then I might tell someone about the way we live. Then she’d have to acknowledge what she’s done to me.
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― The Common Good
― The Common Good
“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
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“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
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“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
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“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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