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“It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, places both near and far, the apocalypse appeared to have arrived and yet it was not apocalyptic, which is to say that while the changes were jarring they were not the end, and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
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“The only way not to be unhappy is to shut yourself up in art, and count everything else as nothing.”
― Flaubert ~ Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
― Flaubert ~ Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
“The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.”
― J.G. Ballard: Quotes
― J.G. Ballard: Quotes
“To live is to build a ship and a harbor
at the same time. And to complete the harbor
long after the ship was drowned.”
― Amen
at the same time. And to complete the harbor
long after the ship was drowned.”
― Amen
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