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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Dispossessed

    I saw that you can't do anything for anybody. We can't save each other. Or ourselves.""What have you left, then? Isolation and despair! You're denying brotherhood, Shevek!" the tall girl cried."No-no, I'm not. I'm trying to say what I think brotherhood really is. It begins-it begins in shared pain.
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  2. John Berger _ Confabulations

    I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are impertinent. More than half the stars in the universe are orphan-stars belonging to no constellation. And they give off more light than all the constellation stars.
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  3. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ The Way of the Heart: The

    To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.
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  4. Cormac McCarthy _ Blood Meridian, or the Evening

    Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
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  5. Samuel Beckett _ Waiting for Godot

    ESTRAGON: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you?ESTRAGON: You let me go.
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  6. Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel

    And only when he'd finished and fallen silent did the vague smile return to his lips, in apparent gentle mockery of himself, of the man he had just described and for whom, deep down, he felt neither compassion nor disdain, only a kind of disillusioned, sympathetic solidarity."
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