
“Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.”
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“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.”
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...
But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
― Through the Woods
But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
― Through the Woods
“Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new "Culture of Silence".”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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