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Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.

We live in a machine that eats hope and shits out tragedy.

It’s a matter of equality. If cheating were allowed, it’d be unfair to cheaters.

"The relevant question is this: Can science devise a way to render this process of exterminating human beings devoid of cruelty?"

Leave it to Vollmann to pen the most haunting Nazi dialogue...

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

This book is stunning.

There are so many ways in which I’m vulnerable and cannot help but be vulnerable, I’m not going to be more vulnerable by putting weapons of silence in my enemies’ hands.

Am I to be cursed forever with becoming
somebody else on the way to myself?

We are elementary forces colliding in free fall

Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses.

We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.