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05-02-2018, 04:37 PM | #3812 |
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"Dawn crept up on the Stanford campus like a cautious painter, mixing color into the monochrome gloom overhead so it faded through shades of gray toward a clean morning blue, layering beige back onto the sandstone angles of the hospital buildings one pale coat at a time, working from the top down. In the gardens, the hedges and trees got back their green and people started to come through on the gravel paths in ones and twos. A few of them glanced at the man seated alone on the bench, but none stopped. There was a curious immobility to him that drove off any impulse for human contact, and stilled conversational voices as they approached. Those whose work was in the acute wards at the medical center knew at a glance what it meant. This was a man undergoing surgery without anesthetic—the slow, sawtoothed severing of himself from another human being somewhere inside the hospital."
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05-15-2018, 02:45 PM | #3813 |
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“Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.
The query: 'At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?' And the answer: 'Where was man?'" ― William Styron, Sophie's Choice |
05-16-2018, 09:58 PM | #3814 |
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'We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb?'
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05-17-2018, 11:02 AM | #3815 | |
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05-19-2018, 07:50 AM | #3816 |
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And everyone of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal Pourin' off of every page Like it was written in my soul. ― Bob Dylan, Tangled Up In Blue |
05-22-2018, 09:17 AM | #3817 | |
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05-22-2018, 10:27 AM | #3819 |
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Well, I think I've shared this one before but this is definitely my favorite and definitely relevant...
"There are accounts which, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply. Look -- here is a good man, good by his own lights and the lights of his friends: he is faithful and true to his wife, he adores and lavishes attention on his little children, he cares about his country, he does his job punctiliously, as best he can. So, efficiently and good-naturedly, he exterminates Jews: he appreciates the music that plays in the background to pacify them; he advises the Jews not to forget their identification numbers as they go into the showers -- many people, he tells them, forget their numbers, and take the wrong clothes when they come out of the showers. This calms the Jews. There will be life, they assure themselves, after the showers. Our man supervises the detail taking the bodies to the ovens; and if there is anything he feels bad about, it is that he still allows the gassing of vermin to affect him. Were he a truly good man, he knows, he would feel nothing but joy as the earth is cleansed of its pests." ~American Gods, Neil Gaiman |
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“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”
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The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed. It had been in the long grass. I had seen it before, and even fed it, once. Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world Unmendably. Burial was no help: Next morning I got up and it did not. The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind While there is still time. ― Philip Larkin, The Mower |
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" I couldn’t be disillusioned because I was never illusioned to begin with."
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"But night’s a relative thing. It always ends. It does; because even if you’re not around to watch it, the sun always comes up, and someone’ll be there to see.
It’s a fine, beautiful morning." ― Gardner Dozois, A Special Kind of Morning (1970), |
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