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“Every one of the Leavers' ways came into being by evolution, by a process of testing that began even before people had a word for it. No one said, 'Okay, let's form a committee to write up a set of laws for us to follow.' None of these cultures were inventions. But that's what all our lawgivers give us--inventions. Contrivances. Not things that have proved out over thousands of generations, but rather arbitrary pronouncements about the one right way to live.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

“The most important way of remembering someone is by being the person they made us — at least in part — and living the life they have helped shape. Sometimes they are not worth remembering. In that case, our most important existential task is to expunge them from the narrative of our lives. But when they are worth remembering, then being someone they have helped fashion and living a life they have helped forge are not only how we remember them they are how we honour them.”
― Mark Rowlands, The Philosopher and the Wolf

“Non-time imposes on time the tyranny of its spatiality: in every life there is
a north and a south, and the orient and the occident. At the extreme limit
or, at the least, at the crossroads, as one’s eyes fly over the seasons, there is
the unequal struggle of life and death, of fervor and lucidity, albeit one of
despair and collapse, the strength as well to face tomorrow. So goes every
life. So goes this book, between sun and shadow, between mountain and
mangrove, between dawn and dusk, stumbling and binary.
Time also to settle the score with several fantasies and a few phantoms.

from “i, laminaria…”
― Aimé Césaire, The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire

“We're on our way to discovering what lies at the very root of your fear and loathing of the Leaver life. We're on our way to discovering why you feel you must carry the revolution forward even if it destroys you and the entire world. We're on our way to discovering what your revolution was a revolution against.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael