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"Lefebvre tricks me into self reflection by making his sentences generally convoluted enough that I need to reread every paragraph. This is a gem- "in the psyche too, development is uneven. If we make a fetish of the total, it can be devastating for the 'being' since we are underestimating the plurality of the sectors with the configuration which situates or rather constitutes everyday life"" — Jan 28, 2026 05:17PM
"Lefebvre tricks me into self reflection by making his sentences generally convoluted enough that I need to reread every paragraph. This is a gem- "in the psyche too, development is uneven. If we make a fetish of the total, it can be devastating for the 'being' since we are underestimating the plurality of the sectors with the configuration which situates or rather constitutes everyday life"" — Jan 28, 2026 05:17PM
It reminded me of the potential of working-class solidarity, and how tragically those bonds have been continually undermined by people in power, how the presence of black people has been spun into a threat rather than an opportunity to
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“The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Diagnosticians act in many ways like politicians who may overtly take their differences very seriously but are always willing to shake hands in a smoke-filled room”
― Scripts People Live: Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts
― Scripts People Live: Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts
“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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