Feel Free
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only themselves. It is not the helpless, subject to terror, who initiate terror, but the violent, who with their power create the concrete situation which begets the 'rejects of life.' It is not the tyrannized who initiate despotism, but the tyrants. It is not those whose humanity is denied them who negate humankind, but those who denied that humanity (thus negating their own as well). Force is used not by those who have become weak under the preponderance of the strong, but by the strong who have emasculated them.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
― Emma
― Emma
“Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
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