Mark Derderian

“I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong? Trotskyites. Why did the October Revolution go wrong? And so on ... OK, we screwed it up, but we can give the best theory why it had to happen.”
― Slavoj Zizek

“We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.”
― Dalai Lama

“Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“And then we cowards
who loved the whispering
evening, the houses,
the paths by the river,
the dirty red lights
of those places, the sweet
soundless sorrow—
we reached our hands out
toward the living chain
in silence, but our heart
startled us with blood,
and no more sweetness then,
no more losing ourselves
on the path by the river—
no longer slaves, we knew
we were alone and alive.

(Translated By Geoffrey Brock)”
― Cesare Pavese, Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950