Lois

“May I disappear in order that those things that I see may become perfect in their beauty from the very fact that they are no longer things that I see.”
― Simone Weil

“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.
I won't say the Lord's Prayer.
I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“Why does it disturb us that Don Quixote be a reader of the "Quixote" and Hamlet a spectator of "Hamlet"?... these inversions suggest that if the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictitious.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings