Another Angry Reader

“Capitalist societies can always heave a sigh of relief and say to themselves: communism is finished since the collapse of the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century and not only is it finished, but it did not take place, it was only a ghost They do no more than disavow the undeniable itself. a ghost never dies, it remains always to come and to come-back.”
― Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx

“When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things.”
― Anaïs Nin, Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1937-1939

“I am; ravaged, but spirited. Damaged, but still deserving.”
― Segovia Amil

“Monologue At 3 AM"

Better that every fiber crack
and fury make head,
blood drenching vivid
couch, carpet, floor
and the snake-figured almanac
vouching you are
a million green counties from here,

than to sit mute, twitching so
under prickling stars,
with stare, with curse
blackening the time
goodbyes were said, trains let go,
and I, great magnanimous fool, thus wrenched from
my one kingdom.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems