Ida Momennejad

“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)”
― Robert Brandom

“What art does is coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“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.”
― Susan Sontag