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“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.”
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“It is impossible to Name and Act against oppression if there are no Nameable oppressors.”
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“It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.”
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“There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.”
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“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.
This seems so clearly the case with grief, but it can be so only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. One may want to, or manage to for a while, but despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, by the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the feel.”
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
This seems so clearly the case with grief, but it can be so only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. One may want to, or manage to for a while, but despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, by the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the feel.”
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Tess’s 2025 Year in Books
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