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“I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

tags: pg-388

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“I do not believe guilt is inherited, but responsibility is, and there is nobody alive today whose existence has not been shaped by colonialist, racist forces. That is a legacy we all live with, and we should all deal with the consequences. If you have benefitted, then soaking yourself in remorse and guilt does not help anyone. What you can do, though, is ask constantly how you have felt those benefits. At whose expense were they gained?”
― Alice Procter, The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It

tags: black-history, black-lives-matter, colonialism, privilege, race-issues, racism, white-guilt, white-privilege

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