Dulce Mansukhani

“the gap between the poetry she wrote and the poetry she contained was, for Natalie, something unsolvable.”
― Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman

“What could it be in this country that transforms young, vibrant, innocent guys like me into steely-eyed, sharp-tongued, single -minded killers with “the thousand yard stare?”
― Michael Zboray, Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

“The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived, which has no badge peculiar to itself, which adapts itself with great flexibility to the exigencies of the time, and accommodates itself to all the movements of the social body; but this party extends over the whole community, and it penetrates into all classes of society; it acts upon the country imperceptibly, but it finally fashions it to suit its purposes.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Volume 1

“in the first beginning of Western thinking. The oldest dictum handed down is attributed to Anaximandros (c. 610–540). It says: ἐξ ν δὲ ἡ γένεσις ἐστι τος οσι, καὶ τὴν φθορὰν εἰς τατα γίνεσθαι κατὰ τò χρεών. διδóναι γὰρ αὐτὰ δίκην καὶ τίσιν ἀλλήλοις τς ἀδικίας κατὰ τὴν το χρóνου τάξιν. “From out of which, however, the coming forth is to the respective present things there also comes forth the passing away into this (as the same) in accord with compelling need; it, namely each present thing itself (out of itself), gives what is fitting and also allows honor (approval), the one to the other, (all this) out of the twisting free of what is not fitting, in accord with the assignment of the ripening through time.” ἀρχή τν ὄντων τὰ ἄπειρον “What provides for anything to come to presence is the repudiation16 of limits.”
― Martin Heidegger, The Event