Fatima

“every generation, by virtue of being born into a historical continuum. is burdened by the sins of the fathers as it is blessed with the deeds of the ancestors. But this kind of responsibility is not what we are talking about here; it is not personal, and only in a metaphorical sense can one say he feels guilty for what not he but his father or his people have done.”
― Hannah Arendt

“He has no intention of being misled by her. On the contrary, he laughs to himself that he's deceiving her.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Naomi

“Boredom was only invented recently. Before no one was bored”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

“Moralism is the cunt’s effort to find some basis for self-respect, a pitiful gesture toward being human at which men laugh and for which women pity other women.”
― Andrea Dworkin