T. Aching

“Each individual is made up of what he has lived and the way he lived it, and no one can take this away from him. Anyone who has lived in suffering is always made of that suffering; if they try to take it away from him, he is no longer himself.”
― Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar

“Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts—only in the truth. You get the facts from outside. The truth you get from inside.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

“What good are all the objects in the universe, if there is no subject?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

“The answer is that, some time in the twentieth century, the left traded freedom for other things. In the East (from Russia to China, Cambodia and Vietnam), the quest for emancipation was swapped for a totalitarian egalitarianism. In the West, liberty was left to its enemies, abandoned in exchange for an ill-defined notion of fairness. The moment people believed they had to choose between freedom and fairness, between and iniquitous democracy and miserable state-imposed egalitarianism, it was game over for the left.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism