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If we could understand and love the infinity of agonies which languish around us, all the lives which are hidden deaths, we should require as many hearts as there are suffering beings. And if we had a miraculously present memory which sustained the totality of our past pains, we should succumb beneath such a burden. Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory.
A Short History of Decay
E. M. Cioran
Message to me from my former self: slow down and, above all, detach. __If you can't stand being around suffering people, then you have no business in the low-wage work world, as a journalist or anything else.__
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich
“Some people,” the Vizier went on, “think it’s the world of anxieties and dreams—your world, in short—that governs this one. I myself think it’s from this world that everything is governed. I think it’s this world that chooses the dreams and anxieties and imaginings that ought to be brought to the surface, as a bucket draws water from a well. Do you see what I mean? It’s this world that selects what it wants from the abyss.”
The Palace of Dreams
Ismail Kadare
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