Yue

“The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Everyone seeks their look. Since it is no longer possible to base any claim on one's own existence, there is nothing for it but to perform an appearing act without concerning oneself with being - or even with being seen. So it is not: I exist, I am here! but rather: I am visible, I am an image -look! look! This is not even narcissism, merely an extraversion without depth, a sort of self-promot­ing ingenuousness whereby everyone becomes the manager of their own appearance.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“The gentle downward slope gets steeper
and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, New Collected Poems

“Forgetting extermination is part of extermination.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation