Being oppressed means the absence of choices ― bell hooks

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Though nothing can bring back the hour, Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind. – William Wordsworth

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There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. — Emma Watson

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Love is the absence of judgment. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent nay, more present than the living man. – Antoine de Saint– Exupéry

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Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

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Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you. — Taylor Swift

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Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

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