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And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels like. It is not some grand, wretched emotional breakdown. It is, in fact, so very mundane:…Rock Bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable…Rock bottom is feeling that the only thing that matters in all of life is the one bad moment…Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It’s a failure of vision, a failure to see the world how it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not—and not some other way.


Elizabeth Wurtzel


#prozac-nation #life

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best


O. Henry


#hypocrisy #liars #hypocrisy

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.


Derrick Jensen


#government #civilization

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.


Roger Ebert


#empathy #civilization

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.


Jane Austen


#darcy #elizabeth-bennet #love #union #love

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.


Melika Dannese Lux


#kindred-spirits #olga-belododia #partners #realization #recognition

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.


Derrick Jensen


#entropy #environmental-degradation #global-industrial-economy #impoverishment #economy

I told her stories. They were only a sentence long, each one of them. That’s all I knew how to find. So I told her broken stories. The little pieces of broken stories I could find. I told her what I could. I told her that the Global Alliance had issued more warnings about the possibility of total war if their demands were not met. I told her that the Emperor Nero, from Rome, had a giant sea built where he could keep sea monsters and have naval battles staged for him. I told her that there had been rioting in malls all over America, and that no one knew why. I told her that the red-suited Santa Claus we know — the regular one? — was popularized by the Coca-Cola Company in the 1930s. I told her that the White House had not confirmed or denied reports that extensive bombing had started in major cities in South America. I told her, “There’s an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we’re all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there’s nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.


M.T. Anderson


#decline-of-civilization #excess #dreams

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.


Lydia Maria Francis Child


#imperialism #injustice #oppression #racism #rationalization

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#happiness #ignoring #independent #joy #responsibility






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