Auden

“Placing oneself in a position where one is thus traversed, broken, fucked by the socius, looking for the right place where, according to the aims and interests assigned to us, one feels something moving that has neither an interest nor a purpose.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“Eros shook my mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees.”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency