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Wisława Szymborska
“I have no idea who dreamed up the idiotic notion that summer vacations require "light" reading. Just the opposite, since the "light" books get read—if any reading's done at all—before bedtime, after the office work and house work, when we lack the concentration required for heavier fare.”
Wisława Szymborska, Nonrequired Reading

“Technology tries to prevent us from asking deeper questions. The megatechnology society believes that there is a technological solution to every problem. This would be correct only if the world were a machine.”
Stephanie Mills, Turning Away from Technology

Jessica Francis Kane
“It seems to me that your oldest friends can offer a glimpse of who you were from a time before you had a sense of yourself.”
Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

“On n’y échappe pas : il faut déconstruire tout ce qui fait la beauté de cette langue, les mots, leurs sonorités si anciennes, les références littéraires, les subtilités de l’écriture, l’étymologie et la part d’histoire singulière qu’elle contient. La langue de la traduction est toujours défaillante. Je ne peux rien contre la perte irrémédiable de ce qui me touche le plus. [...]

Il y a bien longtemps – aussi loin que mes souvenirs remontent – j’ai trouvé refuge dans la lecture et dans la littérature. Puis ce fut dans l’entre-deux de la traduction, ce pont flottant au milieu des brumes [...]. Je rêve encore à Babel, non comme un monde totalitaire où nous serions tous sommés de ressentir la même chose et de l’exprimer de manière identique, mais comme une unité profonde et sous-jacente courant sous des mots différents, sous des regards fragmentés qui mettent en lumière différents aspects du réel.”
Corinne Atlan, Le Pont flottant des rêves

Joanna Moncrieff
“This view of psychiary [as a genuine scientific activity] is premised on the idea that modern drugs are disease- or symptom-specific treatments; that they work by reversing some or all of an underlying physical pathology. It is the idea of the specificity of action that makes drug treatment appear to be a therapeutic, medical enterprise. If, in contrast, modern psychiatric treatments are not specific, if they act merely by inducing psychoactive effects that suppress or contain psychiatric distress and problematic behaviours, then psychiatry has not moved far from its historical roots as a [...] medicalized form of social control.”
Joanna Moncrieff, De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition

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