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“We have all eaten of the fruit of life, not knowing we have swallowed its death-seeds. The seeds sprout into weeds tall as trees, choking. Smothered or not by distraction or belief, this we share: death as a shared feast, suffering as our communal drink.”

Life Pain Death Joy Suffering Adam And Eve Tree Of Life Communal

Book:The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language

Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language

“We need the help of other people to be born into this world and to leave it.”

Wisdom Life And Death Mortality Cooperation Human Condition Solidarity Interdependence Collective Action Life Cycle Communal

Author:Stewart Stafford

“Finding communities that validate and share your anger creates powerful opportunities for collective social action.”

Action Community Validation Social Action Communal

Book:Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

Source: Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.”

Source: Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“For ants, service to the colony is everything. As individual workers approach natural death, it benefits the colony more for the old to spend their last days in dangerous occupations. The Darwinian logic is clear: for the colony, the aged have little to offer and are dispensable.”

Duty Colony Utilitarian Ant Communal

Book:Tales from the Ant World

Source: Tales from the Ant World

“The front ramp is gradually lowered, in slow electronic increments. A couple of dozen backpackers stand, inside the lower deck’s muted light, like an army of extraterrestrials. Paros is refilling with English, German, French, Italian, Scandinavian, Australian, and South African tourists. The town remains in motion. Some come. Some go. The cycle appears endless. The entire world appears to wash up on Paros.”

Travel Youth Culture Communal

Book:Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020

Source: Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020

“A commune of library employees in Moscow created an "extreme" commune in which all clothing - including undergarments - was collectivized. According to Mehnert, if a communard preferred to wear his or her own underclothes "it would be characterized as a backslide into darkest capitalism; as prejudice originating in a petit-bourgeois ideology".”

Revolution Underwear Clothing Communal Underclothes Petit Bougeois

Author:Stites Richard