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#1

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

tags: 1998

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#2

“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
― Terence McKenna

tags: chaos, control, ego

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#3

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: chaos, emptiness, normalcy, numbness, stillness

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#4

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.
In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: chaos, loss, love, lovers

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#5

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: alone, comfort, communication, community, community-service, compassion, empathy, encourage, encouragement, give, giving, help, helping-others, helping-out, kindness, letting-them-in, lonelyness, lost, love, missions, novels, reaching-out, selflessness, service, share, sharing, stories, tears-together, transparency, vulnerability

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#6

“What is suppressed in postmodern culture is not the Dark but the Light side. We are far more comfortable with demons than angels. Whereas the demonic appears cool and sexy, the angelic is deemed to be embarrassing and sentimental”
― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

tags: hauntology, mark-fisher

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#7

“those who can’t remember the past are condemned to have it resold to them forever”
― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

tags: hauntology, mark-fisher

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#8

“Baudrillard observes somewhere that computers don’t really remember because they lack the ability to forget”
― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

tags: hauntology, mark-fisher

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#9

“to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.”
― Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

tags: body, empathy, pain, philosophy, psychology, war

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#10

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

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