“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd.”
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“I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
“If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel
“It doesn't mean he agrees with you; it doesn't mean he acknowledges you. It doesn't mean he has even heard you. It simply meant he is done talking to you.”
― Quoz
― Quoz
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