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Jean Valentine, Sanctuary
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Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from Notes on Grief
"the Orientalist’s celebration of ‘his method, and his position, as that of a secular creator, a man who made new worlds as God had once made the old’, the subjects of Orientalism are ‘unmistakably Christian,’ but they are also mourning—or celebrating—the loss of their religion."
—Gil Anidjar
"Orientalism—which is to say, secularism—became one of the essential means by which Christianity failed to criticize itself, the means by which Christianity forgot and forgave itself."
—Gil Anidjar
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Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
un/fortunately reading philosophy again,
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— Brenda Hillman, from "On Days When We Both Travel," In a Few Minutes Before Later
Susan Eros
"every horror necessarily becomes, in the enlightened world, a horrific fairy-tale. for the untruth of truth has a core which finds an avid response in the unconscious. it is not only that the unconscious wishes horrors to come about; Fascism is itself less ‘ideological,’ in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."
—adorno, minimia moralia
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“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure….you are above everything distressing.”
― Spinoza
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The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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“Support the Mass Struggle Against Apartheid in South Africa.” Abdul Hay Mosallam International Artists Group 1980
underestimate/d what love
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— June Jordan, from "Poem for Haruko," Haruko/Love Poems