Consequential Quotes (5 quotes)

“By assembling in our mind all the consequential facts we have lived through and by reviewing, appraising or sometimes idealizing the numerous key points of the past, authenticity may gradually mutate and actuality decay at last. At that point in time we are to experience a maimed factuality. ("Labyrinth of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: actuality, appraise, assemble, at-last, authenticity, consequential, decay, experience, facts, factuality, gradually, idealize, key-point, labyrinth, live-through, maimed, mind, mutate, numerous, past, review, sometimes

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“As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

tags: cognition, consequential, electric-wall-clock, motion

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“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“When he finally made himself meet Julian's eyes, he couldn't find any doubt or ridicule in his face. Julian believed him, and his respect was so consequential that it felt like Paul's first step toward mattering. Paul wasn't sure he would ever grow used to it -- this thrill of being seen and known and understood.”
― Micah Nemerever

tags: belonging, consequential, mattering

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