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Richard Siken
“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
Richard Siken, Crush

Adrienne Rich
“The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.

-from "Transcendental Etude”
Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

Dave Eggers
“You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's dignified about dying? It's never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.”
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Donna Tartt
“Can’t good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Walter Kaufmann
“The value of a human being, Nietzsche said, does not lie in his usefulness: for it would continue to exist even if there were nobody to whom he could be useful.”
Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

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