I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.
~ Herta Müller
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I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.
~ Herta Müller
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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What is the difference between a revolution and the failure of a state or the collapse of an empire? Only that in a revolution, many men, women, and children have the emotional energy to imagine a better future and put lots of creative work into trying to make it so.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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History is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying ‘Arise, Sir Knight’ deserves a life sentence in Camelot.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
~ Man Ray
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
~ Toni Morrison
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Organizational cultures are created by leaders, and one of the decisive functions of leadership may well be the creation, the management, and – if and when that may become necessary – the destruction of culture.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
~ Mark Twain
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Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you’re so impossibly close is unbearable.
~ Herta Müller
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