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I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. his passion had been artificial. his pursuit of me had been choreographed.

-Charlaine Harris

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I'd Been Blindsided With The Most Painful

Charlaine Harris

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. his passion had been artificial. his pursuit of me had been choreographed.

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We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fiddle around in any way with electrical equipment. never.

A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. after all, i choreographed for myself. i never choreographed what i could not do. i changed steps in medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. but i knew. and it haunted me. i only wanted to dance.

Passion makes the old medicine new: passion lops off the bough of weariness. passion is the elixir that renews: how can there be weariness when passion is present? oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue: seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

You cannot lead without passion. passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. passion actually covers a multitude of sins. real entreleaders care deeply, and that is basically what passion is. passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply.

We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... the exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... it is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.

At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. so you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. at a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.

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