P30 Quotes

“Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: 'May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country or relationship fulfill my deepest desire.' But as long as you are waiting for that mysterious moment you will go on running helter-skelter, always anxious and restless, always lustful and angry, never fully satisfied. You know that this is the compulsiveness that keeps us going and busy, but at the same time makes us wonder whether we are getting anywhere in the long run. This is the way to spiritual exhaustion and burn-out. This is the way to spiritual death.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

“Comprendre les mécaniques de notre infériorisation, et comment nous sommes amenées à en être le meilleurs vigiles, c'est comprendre les mécaniques de contrôle de toute la population. Le capitalisme est une religion égalitariste, en ce sens qu'elle nous soumet tous, et amène chacun à se sentir piégé, comme le sont toutes les femmes.”
― Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

“The writer is the prey of an inner god who speaks at all times, without bothering, tyrant that he is, with the holidays of his medium. Writers are on holiday, but their Muse is awake, and gives birth non-stop.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies