Deina

“Whereas during the primitive stage of capitalist accumulation “political economy considers the proletarian only as a worker,” who only needs to be allotted the indispensable minimum for maintaining his labor power, and never considers him “in his leisure and humanity,” this ruling-class perspective is revised as soon as commodity abundance reaches a level that requires an additional collaboration from him. Once his workday is over, the worker is suddenly redeemed from the total contempt toward him that is so clearly implied by every aspect of the organization and surveillance of production, and finds himself seemingly treated like a grownup, with a great show of politeness, in his new role as a consumer.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

“Es extraño, de alguna manera se tiene siempre la impresión de tener suerte, de que cualquier circunstancia, tal vez infinitesimal, nos sujeta junto al abismo de la desesperación y nos permite vivir. Llueve, pero no sopla el viento. O tal vez llueve y sopla el viento: pero sabes que esta tarde te toca a ti el suplemento de potaje y, entonces, también hoy encuentras fuerzas para superar la tarde. O incluso tienes lluvia, viento y el hambre cotidiana, y entonces piensas que si no te quedase otro remedio, si no sintieses en el corazón más que sufrimiento y tedio, como a veces sucede, que te parece en verdad yacer en el fondo, pues bien, aun entonces pensamos que si queremos, en cualquier momento, siempre podemos llegarnos hasta la alambrada eléctrica y tocarla o arrojarnos bajo los trenes que maniobran, y entonces dejaría de llover.”
― Primo Levi

“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular fate; he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate and obvious causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and from what he had come to understand of them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous