EVER SINCE THE ENLIGHTENMENT, WESTERN PHILOSOphers have shown us a Nature that is grand and universal but also passive and mechanical. Nature was a backdrop and resource for the moral intentionality of Man, which could tame and master
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“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

“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

“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

“...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer

“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
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