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“Education is thus constantly remade in the praxis. In order to be it must become. Its "duration" (in the Bergsonian meaning of the word) is found in the interplay of opposites permanence and change.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married. She grows up, too, with the memory of what it meant to be properly loved, for what you are, not what you ought to be.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
“One of the basic elements of the relationship between oppressor and oppressed is prescription. Every prescription represents the imposition of one individual's choice upon another, transforming the consciousness of the person prescribed to into one that conforms with the prescriber's consciousness. Thus, the behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.”
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“That geniality was not faked, but it was exaggerated. there was a warmth to the man, an outgoingness, which was real; but it had got plasticoated with professional mannerisms, distorted by the doctor's unspontaneous use of himself.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“I write this now, having spent a lifetime trying to be, by which i mean the best version, a thing dreamed by those stricken with imagination. Not that you ever quite know what that is, still there he is, that better man, who remains always just ahead of you. I write this now, having come to realise it's a lifelong pursuit, that once begun will not end this side of the graveyard. With this I have made an old man's accommodation and am reconciled to the fruits of a fruitless endeavour. I don't torture myself with my failures, but when I was seventeen I did little else”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness
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