"When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun."

-- Fernando Pessoa

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“The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.”
“About 97% of the media is created by men.”
“Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around.”
“What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.”
“It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.”

Source : C. D. Broad (2011). “Lectures on Psychical Research (Routledge Revivals): Incorporating the Perrott Lectures Given in Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960”, p.319, Routledge
“I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband who sought me out on quiet nights. Something in between. This Linden has never woven his fingers through mine, never chosen me from a line of weary Gathered girls, never said he loved me in a myriad of coloured lights. We are nothing to each other.”
“You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.”
“I prefer black music in general.”

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