It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.

— Ana Claudia Antunes

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An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Police intentionally murdering a mentally unstable person will always be unacceptable when there are numerous other non-lethal options available to them.

— Steven Magee

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