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Hit Parade of Tears

by Izumi Suzuki

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Aug 08, 2023 03:13PM

“For the first time back then, I thought about everything seriously. The past and the future, both equally unknowable, and also this ongoing situation that the consulates call "transitory" but that we know in everyday language as "the present.”
― Anna Seghers, Transit

tags: bureaucracy, foreigner, immigrant, limbo, visa

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“That's what I wanted—not merely the body, desirable as it was, but its will to grow into the very world that rejects its hunger.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: body, desire, queer

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“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“I was seen—I who had seldom been seen by anyone. I who was taught, by you, to be invisible in order to be safe.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: immigrant, otherness, war

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“I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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