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“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Sula
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Sula
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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“The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn’t trust the Englishman in the dark”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“Je vous préviens. Les mots que vous m'avez dits, je ne vous laisserai pas revenir dessus.”
― La Mémoire de Babel
― La Mémoire de Babel
“Beauty is not good capital. I compounds the oppression of gender. It constrains those who identify as women against their will. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
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