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'He looked up at her. Letta, luminous, a little wild.'

'He was like the finest champagne: effervescent, complicated, emboldening, and gone too quickly from each encounter.'

'Violetta suddenly knew that this song was what she had to say: I am yours, World. You are mine.'

Already got a misspelled Italian word, twice in two paragraphs. C'mon now

on Pascal's Apology for the Christian Religion: 'Because the book was left in outline form, it seems sketchy, even aphoristic. But certain parts are like kernels, deceptively small for all they contain, waiting to burst open with the application of a little heat.'

'The other plays in this volume serve as a reminder that unlike Wordsworth's "lower class conversation," Shakespeare's language hasn't been made strange by the distance of time. It was always strange. Perhaps we once had a larger appetite for such strangeness.'

'This is perhaps the most striking thing about the Hippocratic Oath—not that it binds the physician to pass on his art to worthy disciples, but that it binds him to withhold it from all others. The implication is that knowledge, gained at great cost, may be lost to humanity if not handled properly—that the ground in which it is planted must be properly cultivated'

'At certain moments throughout the day, everything got very quiet, and this quiet called out to be filled by acts of the imagination.'

'(Dante knows Virgil only from his books, but knows him well enough to follow him into hell.)'

'But for all we have learned in two thousand years, the world seems to me still basically mysterious, still dark, and for one night this flame seems like a beautiful way to answer that darkness.'

'Dans la chaleur de l'après-midi, les maisons semblent étrangement profondes, silencieuses et repliées sur leurs secrets.'

'Le café était très fort, très parfumé, le soleil me réconfortait un peu.'

'Je plongeai mon visage dans l'eau pour le refaire, le rafraîchir... L'eau était verte. Je me sentais envahie d'un bonheur, d'une insouciance parfaite.'

'c'était une idée facile et qu'il était agréable d'avoir des idées faciles. C'était l'été.'

'Sad politics often come from an exaggerated sense of what we can do by ourselves, individually, which leads to the habit of overburdening ourselves.'

'Capitalism was born from the separation of people from the land, and its first task was to make work independent of the seasons and to lengthen the workday beyond the limits of our endurance.'

'Quite consciously, in its attempt to relocate itself on safer shores, capital is embracing the dream of all religion: the overcoming of all physical boundaries, the reduction of human beings to angel-like creatures, all soul and will.'

'For the thrust of the emerging capitalist class toward the domination and exploitation of nature would have remained a dead letter without the concomitant creation of a new type of individual whose behavior would be as regular, predictable, and controllable as that of the newly discovered natural laws.'

'"But when you think about saints, I don't imagine any of them made their families happy."'

'I had forgotten the way she was in the morning, like each new day came in on a wave she had managed to catch.'

'Without eros, logos is deteriorating'

'Conceiving our bodies as primarily discursive also ignores that the human body has powers, needs, desires that have developed in the course of a long process of coevolution with our natural environment and are not easily suppressed...this accumulated structure...has been a powerful limit to the exploitation of labor, which is why capitalism...has struggled to domesticate our body'

'Happiness is the proof that time can accommodate eternity.'

'Society as a search engine, a machine for consumption, is abolishing a desire for what is absent.'

'"It takes a lot more time to save something than it does to cut it off."'

'This view of the universe as something living, where everything is interconnected gives power to our struggle. It is an antidote against the cynical view that it is worthless to strive to change the world because "it is too late," "things are too far gone," and we should not get too close to others because we cannot trust them and should think of ourselves first.'

'As the generation of feminists to which I belong has struggled to establish, maternity is not a destiny. But it is also not something to be programmatically avoided, as if it were the cause of women's misery and exploitation...the decision to have a child must also be seen as a refusal to allow capital's planners to decide who is allowed to live and who instead must die or cannot even be born.'

'What threatens us are not only that the machines are taking over, but also that we are becoming like machines.'

'Even without gene editing we are already mutants, capable, for instance, of carrying out our daily lives while aware that catastrophic events are occurring all around us, including the destruction of our ecological environment and the slow death of the many people now living on our streets, whom we daily pass by without much of a thought or an emotion.'

'As I previously argued, capitalism cannot dispense with workers. The workerless factory is an ideological sham intended to scare workers into subjection. Were labor to be eliminated from the production process capitalism would probably collapse. Population expansion is by itself a stimulus to growth; thus, no sector of capital can be indifferent to whether women decide to procreate.'