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“One might even say that although complacency is common, it is deeply antithetical to human life because our consciousness of life’s impending end forces us to care.” (149)
— Jul 09, 2025 08:42AM
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Kate Newton
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“There are clearly different varieties of risk: some can be contracted more effectively than others. But it is helpful to keep in mind that the minute we desire, we bring risk into our lives, for desire, as I have demonstrated, connects us to an outside world that is always inherently unpredictable.” (147)
— Jul 09, 2025 08:37AM
Kate Newton
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Good, bookmarking lots of good quotes that I will share at the end, but slow to read as I’m in Germany and that is honestly a bit more exciting than Mari Ruti as it would have it.
— Jun 25, 2025 10:48AM
Kate Newton
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…. over time our continued capacity to keep asking the right questions gives us the tools to remake our lives so that who we become tomorrow may be very different from who we are today” (Ruti 20)
— Jun 18, 2025 12:43PM
Kate Newton
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“the lack of easy answers does not mean that no answers are available to us. I would in fact say that our yearning for easy answers may well be our biggest stumbling block, for it can keep us from finding the sorts of answers that are not entirely self-evident but that are nevertheless personally meaningful to us…
— Jun 18, 2025 12:42PM
