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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.
“Every interaction with another human being is a possible gateway to some new world or experience,”
― Get the Guy
― Get the Guy
“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
“Love is freedom, while attachment is control.”
― Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future
― Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future
“three sources of hurt: attachment expectation judgment three sources of healing: compassion commitment observation”
― Clarity & Connection
― Clarity & Connection
“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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