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“And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only, One day I'll weep for this. One of these days I'll start to cry.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“تقولون أن الشفاء بيد الله. هذا صحيح. دعوني اذن أدفع تكاليف العلاج الى الله. انّي أعرف أين أجده”
― محمود طرشونة, دنيا

“Not passion but compassion.
Com—means "with."
What kind of withness would that be?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God