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Aldous Huxley
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Georges Bataille
“A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others.

In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches.

Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.”
Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

“Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
R.D. Ronald

José Saramago
“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”
José Saramago, Blindness

Italo Calvino
“You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it never existed, and therefore in order to really live you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life.”
Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

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