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“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”
― Louis Althusser, Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists: And Other Essays

“THE theory of historical materialism has brought to light some most important truths. Humanity is not an animal species, it is a historical reality.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.”
― Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love