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“Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor

tags: chance, curse, destiny, divine-intervention, fate, fortune, life, luck, misfortune, pettiness, punishment, religion, superstition

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“Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor

tags: blindness, ignorance, intelligence, narrow-mindedness, opinions, reality, reality-check

108 likes

“In this sorry world, the symbol is the thing.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: symbols

13 likes

“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

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“When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

tags: adaptability, change, death, depression, ennui, life, old-age

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