Charlotte

“To alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.”
― Paulo Freire

“The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....”
― Edmund Crispin

“It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one....”
― Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey

“The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the birds could share their food and gambled where any cutpurse could steal their winnings, they kissed in full view of strangers and even fucked in the shadows if they wanted to. What did it mean to be a man so completely among men, and women too? When solitude was banished, did one become more oneself, or less? Did the crowd enhance one's selfhood or erase it?”
― Salman Rushdie