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“Nice comes from the Latin word for “stupid”,’ said Griffin. ‘We do not want to be nice.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor