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Hannah Arendt
“Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt
“The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Maggie Nelson
“199. For to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then, to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Maggie Nelson
“So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.”
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

Helen Oyeyemi
“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”
Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

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