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“Learning to be a parasite is the crucible of unmet longing for that something-else that can complete you, enfolded somewhere, still perhaps hidden.”
― We the Parasites
― We the Parasites
“the ancient Greek word for adornment, kosmos, means both “decoration” and “world order.” (This is, of course, why the words cosmetics and cosmology share an etymological root.)”
― Ornamentalism
― Ornamentalism
“Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it.”
― Cursed Bunny
― Cursed Bunny
“I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen long ago! from We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust”
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“Is it better to endure bad art for the spotless ideology it promotes, or to continue to swoon before sublime art made by awful people?”
― It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track
― It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track
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