“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.
(from The structure of desire and recognition)”
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(from The structure of desire and recognition)”
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“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights”
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“If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.”
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“My library is an archive of longings.”
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
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