Daniel

“There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life is
inherently preferable to death is one of the most widespread superstitions. This bias constitutes one of the most obstinate mythologies of the human species.”
― Mitchell Heisman, Suicide Note

“Everything is language.”
― Octavio Paz, The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

“The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, small farmers were being squeezed out, workingmen were working twelve hours a day for a bare living; profits were for the rich, the law was for the rich, the cops were for the rich;”
― John Dos Passos, 1919

“Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.”
― John Dos Passos