Amelia

“We desire not only that we get something, but that we be pleased when we get it.”
― Emily A. Austin, Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life

“It is not in the power of journalism by itself to change the civilization of the spectacle that it has helped to create. This reality is deeply rooted in our time. It is the birth certificate of the new generations, a way of being and living and perhaps of dying in this world of ours; we who are the fortunate citizens of countries in which the democracy, liberty, ideas, values, books, art and literature of the West have afforded us both the privilege of turning fleeting entertainment into the supreme aspiration of human existence as well as the right to view with cynicism and disdain everything that is boring or worrying, and remind us that life is not just entertainment but also drama, pain, mystery and frustration.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Notes on the Death of Culture

“I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible.”
― Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

“She was certain that she deserved another life, one
that existed somewhere else, abstractly, in a virtual
world that could so easily have been hers, and that her life in the real world was nothing but an accident.”
― Édouard Louis, A Woman’s Battles and Transformations