Satyajeet

“The slow and painful transformation of a passionate and narrowly egotistical being into a man who gives himself over wholly to some great work or other that devours him, destroys him, lives in his blood, is a trial every creative being must endure.”
― Józef Czapski, Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

“Does a country fall into fascism the way a person falls in love? Or, more accurately, in hate?”
― Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”
― Jessamyn West

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”
― A.R. Moxon