“give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
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“Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other….
Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
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― I and Thou
Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
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― I and Thou
“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
― Nightwood
― Nightwood
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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