Emma Charala

“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the master himself has become a laboring slave. In this society of compulsion, everyone carries a work camp inside. This labor camp is defined by the fact that one is simultaneously prisoner and guard, victim and perpetrator. One exploits oneself. It means that exploitation is possible even without domination.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

“Όλες οι ευτυχισμένες οικογένειες μοιάζουν μεταξύ τους. Κάθε δυστυχισμένη οικογένεια, όμως, είναι δυστυχισμένη με το δικό της τρόπο”
― Leon Tolstoy