I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
~ Umberto Eco
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Critical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins.
~ György Lukács
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Listening doesn’t mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don’t know you know.
~ Umberto Eco
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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