The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
~ Franz Kafka
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
~ Toni Morrison
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Politics is not an exact science.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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A guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybody’s either for it or against it, we’re against it. You would be too, if you thought about it. The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it.
~ Iain Banks
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet.
― Walter Benjamin
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
~ Audre Lorde
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