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"Catastrophe is the natural language of reality"

"Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?" Mario Vargas Llosa

"But several years later, she would bring someone into her life who would hurt her irreparably, due to a single mistake. This was the law of being overly confident."

Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan

"The prison is not outside, but inside each of us. Perhaps we simply don't know how to love without it."

We had internalized the impoliteness of noise and were no longer willing to howl slogans.

"Charity is for comrades."
With all respect, I don't think you have quite grasped the principle of charity, have you? The point, I think, is that it's undiscriminating, am I right?

"The true triumph is not victory over the enemy; it occurs when the enemy itself starts to use your language."

"You know what man really desires? One of two things: to find someone who is so stupid that he can lie to her, or to love someone so much that she can lie to him."

"Perhaps she lacked a certain strength that would compel him to include her in his pain"

"You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be."

"What would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"

"Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!"

"The rich are obscure to us, finding ways to be unhappy when all the normal causes of unhappiness are removed."

Forster is a genius. I love muddles.