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Ruth Ozeki

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I have been caused to live by the deep conditions of the universe to which I am humbly and deeply grateful.
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I have been caused to live by the deep conditions of the universe to which I am humbly and deeply grateful.
A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.
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A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.
Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.
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Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.
I’m reaching through time to touch you... you’re reaching back to touch me.
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I’m reaching through time to touch you... you’re reaching back to touch me.
I would like to think of my ‘ignorance’ less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can’t act on knowledge, then we can’t survive without ignorance.
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I would like to think of my ‘ignorance’ less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can’t act on knowledge, then we can’t survive without ignorance.
I was deep inside my mind, which is where I go when things get too intense.
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I was deep inside my mind, which is where I go when things get too intense.
Do you have a cat and is she sitting on your lap? Does her forehead smell like cedar trees and fresh sweet air?
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Do you have a cat and is she sitting on your lap? Does her forehead smell like cedar trees and fresh sweet air?
The cat still seemed to be somewhat there with him, but only as an absence, a cat-shaped hole.
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The cat still seemed to be somewhat there with him, but only as an absence, a cat-shaped hole.
But shame is not a pleasant feeling, and some Japanese politicians are always trying to change our children’s history textbooks so that these genocides and tortures are not taught to the next generation. By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.
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But shame is not a pleasant feeling, and some Japanese politicians are always trying to change our children’s history textbooks so that these genocides and tortures are not taught to the next generation. By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.
Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen.
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Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen.
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