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“we know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. and the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. you have nothing. you possess nothing. you own nothing. you are free. all you have is what you are, and what you give.”
— Sep 05, 2022 01:52AM
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“the thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. even pain counts.”
— Sep 05, 2022 11:35AM
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“it is useless work that darkens the heart. the delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skillful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well — this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection, and of sociality as a whole.”
— Sep 03, 2022 09:46PM
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“he tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. he could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.”
— Aug 12, 2022 04:21PM
