Jon Paul Jones

“God is also inexistent, but no more so than Humanity. Both can only be defined by their absence”
― John Gray, The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism - Library Edition

“Gletkin looked at Rubashov with his usual expressionless eyes and asked in his usual expressionless tone: ''Were you given a pocket watch as a child?”
― Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

“Consolidation of state power is not a function of political utility, but a function of institutionalizing an international hierarchy.”
― Jon Paul Allan Jones

“I drink to the ruined house,
To my wicked life,
To our loneliness together,
And I drink to you, —
To the lying lips that betrayed me,
To the dead coldness of eyes,
To the fact that the world is cruel and harsh,
To the fact that God did not save.

-Akhmatova, Anna”
― Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems