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"Prejudices which nothing within the rock itself had either power to remove or any desire to remove."
“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, places both near and far, the apocalypse appeared to have arrived and yet it was not apocalyptic, which is to say that while the changes were jarring they were not the end, and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed”
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
“To describe someone as a “criminal” is both to mark that person with a terrifying permanent character trait and simultaneously to place the person outside the circle of “us.” They are criminals. We make mistakes.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
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