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“To do much is to have the power to place these people where they are, and keep them where they are.…
These captive men are the hidden price for a hidden dreadful terror: the righteous must be able to locate the damned.”

“I’m beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn’t make sense, how could it happen? But that’s really a terrible thought. It can only come out of trouble - trouble that doesn’t make sense.”

Honestly I don’t know if I’m going to finish this

“‘It is language which is assertive, not he.‘“ it is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language’s assertive nature by “add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if anything that came out of language could make language tremble.”

A friend says he thinks of gender as a color. Gender does share with color a certain ontological indeterminacy: it isn’t quite right to say that an object *is* a color, nor that the object *has* a color. Context also changes it: all cats are grey, etc. Nor is color *voluntary*, precisely. But none of these formulations means that the object in question is *colorless*.

“Niranjan looked like he was praying very earnestly. Really, I knew he was thinking. Perhaps there is no difference between the two things for some people.”

“…for she smiled the involuntary smile which women smile when their own beauty, which seems not their own, forms like a drop falling or a fountain raising and confronts them all of a sudden in the glass…”

“When a man has reached the age of thirty, as Orlando now had, time when he is thinking becomes inordinately long; time when he is doing becomes inordinately short”