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"Like all Tibetans, he didn't grasp death as tragedy. Death just marked a quick shift from one life form to another, not some final plunge into bottomless mystery." 1968: China's deep in the Cultural Revolution...
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"Hyper-capitalism is war, with multiple fronts, battles, bodies, a calm march toward nothing." Imagine this. Imagine if in 2025 the international community actually understood the threat humanity faced...
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"She likes to say he's got the gift of survival, while she barely has the gift of life." They fled fast, escaping a collapsing world, a pandemic as sudden as it was vicious. For years now, they've lived on the mountainside, between cliffs and forest...
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"Willpower stiffens everything, everyone knows that - you shouldn't want anything too clearly, just position yourself to get everything, almost with your eyes closed. Let go. Trust yourself. The most beautiful things always happen naturally..."
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"After electricity, early vaccines, atomic energy or the personal computer, Progress's cutting edge was now flourishing there, between the legs of what some still dared to call a sex toy." Even though I was pretty bored with...
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