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“It is only by a great effort that we rouse ourselves to act, to fight, to struggle, to be heard above the wind, to crush flowers as we walk.”
― The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
― The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
“Critics established the right to say whatever they pleased about the dead. It is an absolute power, and the corruption that comes with it, very often, is an atrophy of the moral imagination. They move onto the living because they can no longer feel the difference between the living and the dead. They extend over the living that license to say whatever they please, to ransack their psyche and reinvent them however they please. They stand in front of classes and present this performance as exemplary civilized activity—this utter insensitivity towards other living human beings. Students see the easy power and are enthralled, and begin to outdo their teachers. For a person to be corrupted in that way is to be genuinely corrupted.”
― The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
― The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
“Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!… We choose our next world through what we learn in this one…”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“Photography is a medium of inescapable truthfulness. The camera doesn’t know how to lie.”
― Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
― Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
“I believe there is an impulse in each of us to make our own personal and individual mark on the world around us. The little child coming upon a stretch of clean white snow gleefully rushes forward to imprint the shapes of his feet upon it. A woman passing through a strange room pauses briefly to move an object on a table, making a slight rearrangement that her eye finds more pleasing. A boy carves his initials upon a tree. We all write our names upon the sand.
All of us hope that our choices and our actions will make a little sweeter those rooms we enter, those worlds we move through, those lives we touch, those people and those places we leave behind us. It is, in a way, our small gesture toward immortality, our little message to the universe. It says, "I was here", to the ages.”
― The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
All of us hope that our choices and our actions will make a little sweeter those rooms we enter, those worlds we move through, those lives we touch, those people and those places we leave behind us. It is, in a way, our small gesture toward immortality, our little message to the universe. It says, "I was here", to the ages.”
― The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
Hussein’s 2025 Year in Books
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