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the British are never and nowhere alone, so long as their Empire accompanies them like the proliferating heads on a tapeworm.
“three sources of hurt: attachment expectation judgment three sources of healing: compassion commitment observation”
― Clarity & Connection
― Clarity & Connection
“So what is this radical idea? That most people, deep down, are pretty decent.”
― Humankind: A Hopeful History – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures
― Humankind: A Hopeful History – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures
“Through my suffering I only felt the presence of a love analogous to that which one reads in the smile of a beloved face.”
― Awaiting God: A New Translation of Attente de Dieu and Lettre a Un Religieux
― Awaiting God: A New Translation of Attente de Dieu and Lettre a Un Religieux
“How well can you actually know someone who is not open enough to share their feelings with you?”
― Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
― Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
“There exist, he says, natural, vulgar, and pathological variants of this impulse, in addition to a higher form which is the only genuinely humane type. Its vulgar manifestation lacks all moral value, and can occur even among mindless animals. The less educated one is, the less familiar one is with the qualities of other places in the world: all the stronger is the attraction to the patch of land where one first saw the light of day. In this respect, Greenlanders and Laplanders, Samoyeds and Hottentots must be listed together with the cowherd on his Swiss Alpine meadow.”
― The Island of Second Sight
― The Island of Second Sight
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