We are often reminded how peaceful our world has become, a world without a police force or prison, where crimes and uprisings have nearly disappeared. But we’ve paid a price. The emotional root of all conflict – fear, anger, love, especially love – is prohibited. The goal of our schooling is to master a life of total self-control. A life without wrinkles, without feeling, without soul. Jonathan Friesen
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More Quotes By Jonathan Friesen
  1. How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from.
  2. My world had become his, or his mine; it was hard to say
  3. The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.
  4. I miss home. I miss ignorance. I've seen a beauty I can't fathom in the Aquifer, and met a girl who moves my heart.
  5. I belong everywhere and nowhere, and I alone can save two worlds.
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