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The problem is that everyone wants to talk about language entirely independent of any violence that the existence of that language has accumulated over time.
“The totality of death is inconceivable. It’s intolerable that you’re completely, utterly, irrefutably alive, filled up with decades of inside jokes, goofy facial expressions, all the love of your family, and then not.”
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“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
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“Trauma people are almost as unbearable to me as Trump people. If you try suggesting that they let go of their suffering, their victimhood, they act retraumatized. It’s like, yes, what happened to you is shitty, I’m not denying that, but why do you keep rolling around in your own shit? If they stopped doing that for two seconds and got over themselves, even a little, they might actually become who they were meant to be.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.”
― Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
― Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
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