

“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
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“While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.”
― Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
― Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

“Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.”
― The Politics of Friendship
― The Politics of Friendship
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