Hédi Kaddour

“you’ll have two, two souls, the one you shaped for yourself, the one that’s fine and great and revolutionary, the one that wants the good of all mankind because human nature is basically good and because all that’s required is a better way of organising needs, means and talents, some day all that could be sweeter than springtime, you’d not forgive yourself for giving up your great soul, so idealistic, at last, the classless society. .. and lurking behind soul number one is the other one, the soul that’s realistic, lucid, disenchanted, bourgeois, cynical, the one that enables you to get an important job, to fulminate against the Russians and strikes, to remind yourself that solid obstacles must be placed in the way of human desires because human nature and so on and so forth.”
― Hédi Kaddour

“two consciousnesses face to face, living people who acknowledge each other, each demonstrating to the other that they are there, without one killing the other, and the other one has no need to run away, not like animals, each one needing the other, a struggle which leaves a place for the weak, the loser, attached to life he stays and becomes a servant, and he wins, he is told that he has won, but the master can see in his servant only an object, which means he has no one facing him to acknowledge his consciousness, whereas the servant sees in his master the perfect form of the self, an authentic being, this being deigns to look at him, it is enough for him, he sets to work, and he can contemplate his own self in the fruits of his labour, his labour and a master, a false master, it was a fine thing, except that no one foresaw that the masters would begin killing in earnest, return of the herd! Spineless cretins whom the herd are already quietly driving to the edge of the abyss while all the time telling them that some blessing or other mingles with the mountain dew.”
― Hédi Kaddour