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“For to wish to forget how much you loved someone - and then, to actually forget - can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart. I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender. Often I feel myself to be rocking between them (seasickness).”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”
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“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
― The Principles of Morals and Legislation
― The Principles of Morals and Legislation
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order.”
― The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
― The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
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