“I am not okay. Not at all and haven't been for some time. I did not tell her how discouraged I felt and that I was ashamed I was not more resilient and all the rest of it which included wanting a bigger life but that so far I had not been bold enough to make a bid for things I wanted to happen and I feared it was written in the stars that I might end up with a reduced life like hers...”
― Hot Milk
― Hot Milk
“In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities.”
― A Season in Hell
― A Season in Hell
“I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time--the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“سنكون كما نحن, قوم عاديون, و إذا كنا أكاذيب, فنحن أكاذيب من صنع أنفسنا.”
― Season of Migration to the North
― Season of Migration to the North
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