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1 " Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into the air. She serves up words she has heard me say in the past. "
― Patricia Cornwell , The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)
2 " I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to mania, from depression to tranquility and beneath it all, excitement fizzes as if my blood is filled with gas. "
3 " We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.. "
4 " Thoughts are odd misfires "
5 " Truth is relative, then. It is about timing. It is about what is safe. Truth is the luxury of the privileged, of people who have plenty of food and are not forced to hide because they are Jews. Truth can destroy, and therefore it is not always wise or even healthy to be truthful. "
6 " Shutting down is denial. When you deny the past, you will repeat it. "
7 " Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, "
8 " called What to Do When the Police Leave written by Bill Jenkins, whose "
9 " To hate another person is wrong. It is never right. Hate is a crime of the spirit that leads to crimes of the flesh. "