“An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
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“Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.”
― On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power
― On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power
“I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Historically, the 'deadline' was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for shooting. In keeping with shifts in the exercise of control, what one was delineated spatially over life is now enforced temporarily over labor.”
― Contradictionary
― Contradictionary
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