“I'll go to bed, forget myself in sleep.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”
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“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."
[Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek, Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]”
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[Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek, Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]”
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“Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us.”
― Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
― Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
“We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes...”
― L'ordine del tempo
― L'ordine del tempo
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