"I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room."

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Jean Rhys

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“Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.”
“In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.”
“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
“In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.”
“The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education”
“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.”
“I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my house. I just don't kill anything no more. I used to kill pigeons, rip their heads off, 'You dirty rat pigeon!' I don't even have the heart to kill an animal no more. I just changed my whole life in general. That probably could have changed the way I fight.”
“Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.”

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