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“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD’s sake, which we commonly do for our own.… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Here mankind discarded civilization as if it were an article of clothing and left behind every decent feeling: love; loyalty; simply everything. Here it… — Schoschana Rabinovici Copy Share Image
“It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Over time and under the right circumstances, the norms and values of the group to which we belong become our own. We internalize them.… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, /… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“As individuals, we experience ourselves as the center of whatever social world we inhabit. We think that we are free and refuse to see that we are functions of our particular culture. That culture no longer organically reflects us, it is not our sum total, it is not the collective phenomenology of our creative possibilities—it possess and rules us, reduces… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
“We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to… — Lyanda Lynn Haupt Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the… — margaret atwood Copy Share Image
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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