S. Mehdi

“We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.”
― Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future

“The golden age of cultural theory is long past. The pioneering works of Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault are several decades behind us [ … ] Some of them have since been struck down. Fate pushed Roland Barthes under a Parisian laundry van, and afflicted Michel Foucault with Aids. It dispatched Lacan, Williams and Bourdieu, and banished Louis Althusser to a psychiatric hospital for the murder of his wife. It seemed that God was not a structuralist.”
― Terry Eagleton, After Theory

“Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.”
― Samuel Johnson, Essays From the Rambler and the Idler: With Passages From the Lives of the Poets Prayer and Meditations and Other Writings

“جهان آواری است
از کلمات
و ما در زیر آن
دست و پا می زنیم”
― بیژن جلالی, دربارهٔ شعر