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“In the realm of aesthetics, reason is always subordinate to perception.”
― Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

“And again, a group of soldiers capture a girl, rape her, then kill her, twenty-five years to the day before I was born; this minor detail, which others might not give a second thought, will stay with me forever; in spite of myself and how hard I try to forget it, the truth of it will never stop chasing me, given how fragile I am, as weak as the trees out there past the windowpane. There may in fact be nothing more important than this little detail, if one wants to arrive at the complete truth, which, by leaving out the girl’s story, the article does not reveal.”
― Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

“Indeed, I don’t think there will be structural transformation without personal transformation”
― Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

“Why is it that we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated--defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen