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“We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”
― Isaiah Berlin

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain”
― Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth

“There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

“هر جامعه رژیمِ حقایق‌اش را دارد. هر جامعه، سیاستِ کلی حقیقت‌اش را دارد یعنی انواعی از گفتار را می‌پذیرد و به عنوانِ حقیقت به جریان می‌اندازد.‏
نیز در همین جوامع مکانیسم و نهادهایی هستند که باعث می‌شود گفتارهای درست یا نادرست از هم تشخیص داده شوند.‏
راه‌هایی به کار گرفته می‌شود تا این و آن را مجازات کنند تکنیک‌ها و روش‌هایی برای به دست آوردنِ حقیقت، ارزشمند قلمداد می‌شوند و همین‌طور جایگاه کسانی که وظیفه دارند بگویند چه چیزی به عنوانِ حقیقت کارآیند است.‏”
― Michel Foucault

“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

“But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want."
"Hey, what about the ugly ones?"
"The ugly ones." She poked her tongue out. "It's their fault if their ugly. They're to be blamed, not pitied.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“What do you believe?
I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu.
Equally?
It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul.
Of what would you repent?
Nothing.
Nothing?
One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree