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“Dignity is the highest and one of the greatest gifts you could give your fellow man.”
― God Loves Haiti
― God Loves Haiti
“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“...Freud suggested that, in normal mourning, one internalizes the dead. The dead are fully assimilated into the living, a process he called introjection.”
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“As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have. That’s one of the few good points of growing older.” (83,Haruki Murakami, What I talk about When I Talk About Running)”
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“In hyperbolic tones he listed the catastrophes that in his view were approaching: one, the decline of the revolutionary subject par excellence, the working class; two, the definitive dispersion of the political patrimony of socialists and Communists, who were already perverted by their daily quarrel over which was playing the role of capital’s crutch; three, the end of every hypothesis of change, what was there was there and we would have to adapt to it.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
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