“I understand then why the doctrines that explain everything to me also debilitate me at the same time. They relieve me of the weight of my own life, and yet I must carry it alone.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“People find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“She knew that no matter how you self-identify ultimately, chances are that you succumb to becoming what the world treats you as.”
― Detransition, Baby
― Detransition, Baby
“One must lie low, no matter how much it went against the grain, and try to understand that this great organization remained, so to speak, in a state of delicate balance, and that if someone took it upon himself to alter the dispositions of things around him, he ran the risk of losing his footing and falling to destruction, while the organization would simply right itself by some compensating reaction in another part of its machinery – since everything interlocked – and remain unchanged, unless, indeed, which was very probable, it became still more rigid, more vigilant, severer, and more ruthless.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
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