‘Don’t trust any thoughts you have between two a.m. and five a.m. It’s like listening to your drunk self.’
“All the world over I will back the masses against the classes but nothing that is morally wrong can ever be politically right…”
― The Fourteenth Letter
― The Fourteenth Letter
“No child could remain in the sanctuary unless they opened themselves to God. If they resisted, refused to believe, they were expelled. There was no shortage of street children to choose from.”
― The Secret Speech
― The Secret Speech
“I would suddenly be seized with a desire to go down to the beach for a swim. And merely to have imagined the sound of ripples at my feet, and then the smooth feel of the water on my body as I struck out, and the wonderful sensation of relief it gave,”
― A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
― A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
“Producing nothing, serving no quantifiable function, the church was an archaic structure, erected for archaic reasons by a society that no longer existed.”
― The Secret Speech
― The Secret Speech
“to eat meat was to eat fear”
― The Girls
― The Girls
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