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Walter Lippmann
“Laddove tutti pensano allo stesso modo, nessuno pensa un gran che”
Walter Lippmann

Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“Maimed, mad and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his inborn extraordinary gift.
There is something compelling about being both male and female, about having an entry into both worlds. Contrary to some psychiatric tenets, half and halfs are not suffering from a confusion of sexual identity, or even from a confusion of gender.
What we are suffering from is an absolute despot duality that says we are able to be only one or the other. It claims that human nature is limited and cannot evolve into something better. But I, like pother queer people, am two in one body, both male and female. I am the embodiment of the hieros gamos: the comig together of opposit qualities within.”
Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera : La Nueva Mestiza

José Saramago
“Le vite non cominciano quando le persone nascono, se così fosse ogni giorno sarebbe un giorno in più, le vite cominciano più tardi, spesso troppo tardi, per non parlare di quelle che, non appena iniziate, sono già finite, ecco perché qualcuno ha gridato, Ah, chi scriverà mai la storia di quel che avrebbe potuto essere.”
José Saramago, The Stone Raft
tags: morte, vita

Milan Kundera
“C'è un legame segreto fra lentezza e memoria, fra velocità e oblio. Prendiamo una situazione delle più banali: un uomo cammina per la strada. A un tratto cerca di ricordare qualcosa, che però gli sfugge. Allora, istintivamente, rallenta il passo. Chi invece vuole dimenticare un evento penoso appena vissuto accelera inconsapevolmente la sua andatura, come per allontanarsi da qualcosa che sente ancora troppo vicino a sé nel tempo. Nella matematica esistenziale questa esperienza assume la forma di due equazioni elementari: il grado di lentezza è direttamente proporzionale all'intensità della memoria; il grado di velocità è direttamente proporzionale all'intensità dell'oblio”
Milan Kundera

Jack London
“Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness - a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.”
jack london

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