
“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”
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“Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.”
― Rabbit, Run
― Rabbit, Run

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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