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holy shit did she kill him

Poor, poor, Complete.

"Invisibility was intolerable to men...What shocked Job into humility and renewed fidelity was the message a female Job would have known and heard every minute of her life."

hot take: charles is a metaphor for the intruding nature of capitalist society

- sur page 115, elle a couleur ! sur les pages suivres, elle a beaucoup de coulers !
- exprimer les différences entre les genres, et comment les femmes ne sont pas croire par les medicins
- pourquoi-t-elle est rire à Marguerite ? C'est méchante, ça.
- les bulles verts = nervosité
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jaser (to chatter), creux (quiet time), dingue (crazy, unbelievable)

Children chase after life, even if that chase might end up killing them. Children run and flee. They have an instinct for survival, perhaps, that allows them to endure about anything just to make it to the other side of horror, whatever may be waiting there for them.

the struggle of religion and injustice

"I was crippled by some childhood fear of my own body."

"And still and all I knew that we were something, that we were a tribe--on one hand, invented, and on the other, no less real."

“Instead I was left with a brawl of ancestors, a herd of dissenters, sometimes marching together but just as often marching away from each other”

“The black world was expanding before me, and I could see now that that world was more than a photonegative of that of the people who believe they are white.”

"Those especially who are too weak and silly, and negligent to manage their own private affairs have uniformly an itching fancy to dabble in the public business."

"If freedom implies starvation or death, it is not my fault, but their misfortune."

"Dead, your Excellency, the President of this Republic. Dead, grave senators who grow eloquent over pensions and army wrongs. Dead ministers of religion, who prate because poor men without a moment's leisure on other days presume to read the newspapers on Sunday, yet who wink at, or approve of laws that occasion such scenes as this."

"More than one of these favorites gave birth to children and the little ones were caressed and petted by their father with all imaginable fondness."

"...that black for the time being should be a fashionable style."

"...the deserved punishment of an act of vanity."

"Slaves generally are far preferable to wives in husbands' eyes."

"because it is universally considered a more difficult matter to retain affection than to win it."

"I came to understand that my country was a galaxy..."