Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
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Aeschylus
Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.
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Marty Rubin
Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?
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David Gianadda
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Anonymous
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
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Hans Christian Andersen
More Quotes By N.K. Jemisin
For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.
Syl Anagist's assimilation of the world had been over a century before I was ever made; all cities were Syl Anagist. All languages had become Sylanagistine. But there were none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified...
I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent...
In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds. This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.
