"Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]"

-- Siri Hustvedt

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“Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.”
“One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.”
“Do you know how hard it is to play a character where youre always in heels? Oh, my goodness!”
“That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.”
“Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.”
“As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but donâ€™t hurt others.”
“We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.”

Source : Naoki Higashida (2013). “The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism”, Hachette UK
“It doesn't matter where I am; I'm yours.”

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