Inevitably, as life steamrolls on, she’s become more concerned with what is missing from her collection rather than what she already has.
“Solidarität ist nicht von sich aus eine Tugend, sie kann sich auch als völkische, rassistische oder nationalistische Verbundenheit äußern. Entscheidend ist also nicht die Frage, ob eine Gesellschaft solidarisch sein kann, sondern wen sie in ihre Solidarität mit einschließt. Und da hatten bereits in den Monaten vor dem Virus die Aufdeckung rechter Strukturen in Bundeswehr, Verfassungsschutz, Polizei und Feuerwehr und die unterlassene Hilfeleistung für die Geflüchteten an der türkisch-griechischen Grenze deutliche Hinweise geliefert. Aber erst der abrupte Schulterschluss gegen Corona und die Verkündigung bedingungsloser Solidarität machten klar, dass es in den vorausgegangenen Fällen nicht an staatlicher Durchsetzungsfähigkeit gemangelt hatte, sondern an - Solidarität.”
― Gegenwartsbewältigung
― Gegenwartsbewältigung
“The airlock opened before me, edgeless vacuity beyond. There were no winds here, no crashing waves. Only the cold constancy of stars, to which I was just a crude bit of wet carbon, a flake of skin you brush aside. My pain and pettiness and mistakes and inadequacies did not matter. I did not matter. Nothing we did out here mattered. Nothing we could or would ever do would matter, in the face of this.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“But I’m not a moth. I’m human. And in humans, there are far more stages than just two. I could not have predicted each version of me that I shifted into, but through my history, one constant has always remained true: change itself. I might not be able to return to the other Ariadnes, but I would not always be the Ariadne floating in front of the mirror, either.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“but partly because you cannot stand in the eye of the storm and talk in whispers.”
― These Impossible Things
― These Impossible Things
“Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.”
― The Reading List
― The Reading List
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