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“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is (...) at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.”Virginia Woolf
"What if the book were only infinite memory of A word lacking?"Edmond Jabes
“There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.”Jean Genet
"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."Emma Goldman
"... the 'middle class' is, in its very 'real' existence, the embodied lie, the denial of antagonism - in psychoanalytic terms, the 'middle class' is a fetish, the impossible intersection of left and right which, by expelling both poles of the antagonism into the position of antisocial 'extremes' which corrode the healthy social body (multinational corporations and intruding immigrants), presents itself as the neutral common ground of Society."Slavoj Zizek
"What we have here is the tragicomic reversal of the Benthamite-Orwellian notion of the panopticon society in which we are (potentially) 'observed all the time', and have nowhere to hide from the omnipresent gaze of power."Slavoj Zizek
"...why it has persisted for half a century when everybody knows the only workable solution: the withdrawal of Israel from the West Bank and – conclusively – Gaza, the establishment of a viable Palestinian state and, as part of that process, a compromise over the status of Jerusalem..."Slavoj Zizek