Emaline Wise

“Separation is educational all right but your presence is the education I want.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“It pleased Culafroy that the nobility belonged to Ernestine rather than to himself, and in this trait we may already see a sign of his destiny. To be able to approach her, to enjoy her intimacy, her special favors, was agreeable to him, just as many persons are more pleased to be the favorite of a prince than the prince himself, or a priest of a god than the god, this way they can receive Grace.”
― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers

“People discriminated very carefully then between administering things and governing people. They did it so well that we forgot that the will to dominance is as central in human beings as the impulse to mutual aid is, and has to be trained in each individual, and each new generation.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“It was a good thing that I raised egoistic masturbation to the dignity of a cult! I have only to begin the gesture and a kind of unclean and supernatural transposition displaces the truth. Everything within me turns worshipper. The external vision of the props of my desire isolates me, far from the world.”
― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers