Secil

“It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk.
What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.

"No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.”
― Elias Canetti, The Human Province

“The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust