‘Obéissance à la pesanteur. Le plus grand péché.’ Obedience to gravity. The greatest sin.
“seemed we had so many things to talk about, and at the same time nothing to say. Perhaps one of the greatest surprises about marriage is precisely that: the inevitable formality, even when you know the other’s body and habits better than your own. Light filtered in through”
― A Luminous Republic
― A Luminous Republic
“In France they have two kinds, freedom and communist. In the U.S. they just have one kind: freedom.”
― The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
― The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
“...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“It may be true that the dead betray us when they abandon us, but we too betray them in order to live.”
― A Luminous Republic
― A Luminous Republic
“But it should be Soon. Already I defend hotly Certain of our indefensible faults, Resent being reminded; already in my mind Our language becomes freighted with a richness No common tongue could offer, while the mountains Are like nowhere on earth, and the wide rivers.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
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