"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."

-- Jane Austen

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“I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.”

Source : "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.
“When Iâ€™m with you, I could drink water and be full.”
“For a moment in time, a man knew me for who I was and, without reservation, loved me for who I was. How can I now live knowing no one will ever see me again in such a perfect light? Hear me as I wish to be heard? Love me as [he] loved me?”
“Every person in the world should have the right to learn to read and go to school. It's our responsibility, as global citizens, to ensure that all people have access to developing that skill... and access to books.”
“I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.”
“Youâ€™re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the whole reduction ideaâ€¦if my work is reductionist itâ€™s because it doesnâ€™t have the elements that people thought should be there. But it has other elements I like.”
“Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you know that connecting those threads is what you are supposed to do and business takes care of itself.”
“A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2012). “The Long-Legged House”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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