Berke

“You couldn't get the text by just starting with the meaning, it had to be conceived differently, through prayer, through the endless iterative pronunciation of the words with the mouth, becoming as it were part of the words oneself by speaking.
'What?'
That was how the thought happened. That was how everyone always made it happen.”
― Rainald Goetz, Rave

“As for the burden of saving the planet, destroyed largely by the limitless appetite of the great economic powers, it cannot fall, as is already to be feared, on those who are already destitute. At such moments in history, silence is not an option.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture