“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“You will never look like the girl in the magazine. The girl in the magazine doesn’t even look like the girl in the magazine.”
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
“Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.” — Arundhati Roy
“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.” ― Gilles Deleuze
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." — Frederick Douglass