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Slavoj Žižek
“Q- What makes you depressed?

Seeing stupid people happy.”
Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek
“We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.”
Slavoj Žižek

Simone de Beauvoir
“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

Harold Bloom
“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.”
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Simone de Beauvoir
“My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

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