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“To destroy a people, then, is to set them back in time.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“While everyone was admiring the progress of my idiots, I was searching for the reasons which could keep the happy healthy children of the common schools on so low a plane that they could be equalled in tests of intelligence by my unfortunate pupils!”
― The Montessori Method
― The Montessori Method

“I have dreams too, you know. Dreams…and I could let myself dissolve
into them, let them take me over…but surely the dream isn’t all there is? We have to wake up at some
point, don’t we? Because…because then…”
― The Vegetarian
into them, let them take me over…but surely the dream isn’t all there is? We have to wake up at some
point, don’t we? Because…because then…”
― The Vegetarian

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“We wish the old things because we cannot understand the new, and we are always seeking after that gorgeousness which belongs to things already on the decline, without recognising in the humble simplicity of new ideas the germ which shall develop in the future.”
― The Montessori Method
― The Montessori Method
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