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Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#kushiel-s-dart #beauty

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#centralization #communism #existence #exists #find

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#economically #heart #intellect #man #politically

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#day #despair #discover #discovered #every

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#ceases #individual #individual liberty #liberty #state

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#beautifully #chicago #coming #doing #fairly

To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.” I understood this to mean that as a seventeen-year-old whose brother was most likely dead, I was acting t like a complete ass-hat for a good reason. Not only had my brother disappeared, but–and bear with me here–a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from then on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ↗

— John Croory Whaley

#siblings #where-things-come-back #death

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#attention #been #i #paying #puppet

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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