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“For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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“You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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“The truth is that the masses grew out of the fragments of a highly atomized society whose competitive structure and concomitant loneliness of the individual had been held in check only through membership in a class. The chief characteristic of the mass man is not brutality and backwardness, but his isolation and lack of normal social relationships. Coming from the class-ridden society of the nation-state, whose cracks had been cemented with nationalistic sentiment, it is only natural that these masses, in the first helplessness of their new experience, have tended toward an especially violent nationalism, to which mass leaders have yielded against their own instincts and purposes for purely demagogic reasons.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
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“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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“She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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