“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
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“All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”
― The Allegory of the Cave
― The Allegory of the Cave
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.”
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“Few beings have ever been so impregnated, pierced to the core, by the conviction of the absolute futility of human aspiration. The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. A figure in transition toward chaos. That is what will finally prevail. The human race will disappear. Other races in turn will appear and disappear. The skies will be glacial and empty, traversed by the feeble light of half-dead stars. These too will disappear. Everything will disappear. And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movements of the elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, sentiments? Pure ‘Victorian fictions.’ All that exists is egotism. Cold, intact, and radiant.”
― H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
― H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
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