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“Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.”
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“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
― Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
“Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for otherness, openness to it, and an obsessive fear of harassment. In short, the other is welcomed insofar as its presence is not intrusive, insofar as it is not really the other. Tolerance thus coincides with its opposite. My duty to be tolerant towards the other effectively means that I should not get too close to him or her, not intrude into his space—in short, that I should respect his intolerance towards my over-proximity. This is increasingly emerging as the central human right of advanced capitalist society: the right not to be ‘harassed’, that is, to be kept at a safe distance from others.”
― Against Human Rights
― Against Human Rights
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
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“Don't push me
I've got a corner at my back
I've nowhere to go except over you.”
― See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die
I've got a corner at my back
I've nowhere to go except over you.”
― See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die
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