"Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna"

-- Derek Walcott

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“Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.”
“No one has yet invented a system of education that is capable of ruining everyone.”
“It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it is true that we are daily producing more evil and, with it, an ocean of suffering for millions that is absolutely avoidable. When one day the ignorance arising from childhood repression is eliminated and humanity has awakened, an end can be put to this production of evil.”
“The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.”
“The will to disbelieve is the strongest deterrent to wider horizons.”
“I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.”
“What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!”
“Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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