“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― The Art of Being
― The Art of Being
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
― Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
“مكن تعريف الشمولية الحديثة بأنها: "عملية تأسيسِ حربٍ أهلية قانونية من خلال تطبيق «حالة الاستثناء»"، بما يُتِيحُ التصفية الجسدية ليس فقط للخصوم السياسيين، بل لشرائح كاملة من المواطنين تعتبرهم السلطة، لسببٍ أو لآخر، غير قابلين للاندماج في النظام السياسي. منذ ذلك الحين، بات الخلق الطوعي لحالة طوارئ دائمة، حتى وإن كانت غير مُعلنةٍ –ربما- على الصعيد الفني للمصطلح، أحد الإجراءات الضرورية الهامة التي تلجأ إليها الدول المعاصرة، حتى تلك المُسمَّاةِ دولاً ديمقراطية”
― State of Exception
― State of Exception
“حين يموت من نحبه يموت شئ فينا , هذة هى الحياة , سلسلة طويلة من الموت . يموت الآخرين , فتموت أشياء فى دواخلنا , يموت من نحبهم , فتموت أعضاء من أجسادنا , الإنسان لا ينتظر موته , بل يعيشة , يعيش موت الآخرين داخله , و حين يصل الى موته , يكون قد بتر الكثير من أجزائه , و لم يبق منه إلا القليل”
― Gate of the Sun
― Gate of the Sun
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