Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it’s exhausting to get them out in the right order.” He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she’d heard one. She raised an eyebrow.

~ Merrie Haskell

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To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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A daydream is an evasion.

~ Thomas Merton

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