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“trees and men do not grow together”

“thus do we feel, all of us”

“poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance”

“everyone is not made in the same way”

“now don’t be angry after you’ve been afraid. that’s the worst kind of cowardice”
“anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the night l, I think, if they see things they don’t understand”

“these two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring”

“men are only men […] and their talk is like the talk of frogs in a pond”

“One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterwards”

“because i had learned the ways of men, i became more terrible in the jungle”

“and he grew and grew strong as a boy who must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat”

in the life of everyone there is a limited number of u happy experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

“they did not acknowledge and confront the enemy within”

the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven

is there a word for the feeling prey / feel when the teeth finally sink / after years of waiting?

if love is a room of broken glass, leave me to dance until my feet are memory

“it is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body”

“he threw himself into an orgy of scorn” loool

i love short chapters i feel like i can process the writing more effectively

still depressing

just finished the axiom of equality i’m going to need a 2 day break before i start again jesus christ