“I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is “knowing thyself” as a product of the historical process to date which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory. The first thing to do is to make such an inventory.”
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“No individual or species is privileged in the world of nature: All eat and are eaten; all become sick and die in their turn. Humans are part of an interconnected continuum of life.”
― Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
― Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
“But as time goes on we not only remember specific things in relation to the people we have loved; their lives get built into our lives and finally the transference is complete. We are what we are because of them.”
― Plant Dreaming Deep
― Plant Dreaming Deep
“The eve of a long trip is filled with both exaltation and anxiety, but the day itself is a pure euphoria of action, and anxiety returns in the middle of the trip, at an empty moment, when the exoticism of the setting out has not yet given way to that of going home.”
― Autoportrait
― Autoportrait
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