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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my language, the fact that I didn’t conform to his expectations, that I could read, that had so disturbed and frightened him.”
― Percival Everett, James

“Sugar, you deserve to go out on your own terms. Just because you got dusted doesn’t mean you’re done.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.”
― Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis