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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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She thought she was sophisticated—she liked fine clothes, good liquor—but she knew nothing about art.

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“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“The deaf don't believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing.”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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“A house is never apolitical. It is conceived, constructed, occupied, and policed by people with power, needs, and fears.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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“There is a Quichua riddle: El que me nombra, me rompe. Whatever names me, breaks me. The solution, your course, is "silence." But the truth is, anyone who knows your name can break you in two.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

tags: naming, ownership, power, vulnerability, weakness

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