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Orvil squirmed. Organs inside him seemed to be contracting. The emptiness welled up, sank down; then hung suspended painfully. The palms of his hands sweated, and one of his eyelids began to quiver. He was very much afraid of his eldest ...more
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“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
George Addair

Donella H. Meadows
“You think that because you understand “one” that you must therefore understand “two” because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand “and.”
Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Alain de Botton
“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”
Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

Florence Nightingale
“Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.”
Florence Nightingale, Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women
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“Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.”
Kenya Hara, White

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