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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
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“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
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“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.”
― Thinking in Systems: A Primer
― Thinking in Systems: A Primer
“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.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.”
― Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women
― Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women
“Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.”
― White
― White
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Ruth’s 2025 Year in Books
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