Everytime I Talk About The The Unfair Amount Of Domestic Labor That’s Placed On Women, Men Usually

Brad Pitt as Louis de Pointe du Lac in Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan

Sooner or later, Sam is going to die. What are people going to say about him after he’s dead? That he was a good man? That he was a kind man? That he accomplished something great, or even that he had great aspirations that he never accomplished, but that show the goodness of his intentions in this life, in this world?

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Enemies: A Love Story

Tout reposait dans Ur et dans Jérimadeth ;

Les astres émaillaient le ciel profond et sombre ;

Le croissant fin et clair parmi ces fleurs de l'ombre

Brillait à l'occident, et Ruth se demandait,

Immobile, ouvrant l'oeil à moitié sous ses voiles,

Quel dieu, quel moissonneur de l'éternel été,

Avait, en s'en allant, négligemment jeté

Cette faucille d'or dans le champ des étoiles.

Booz endormi, Victor Hugo

The first [misconception] is that philosophy itself will make you shrewd and dangerous, whereas, in fact, it will teach you to be a fatuous imbecile, but to feel satisfied with your own fatuousness (and, thus, departments of philosophy have neither been the laboratories of revolution, nor even the dodgeball tournaments of revolution).

Les deux têtes (1898) - Auguste Leroux for Victor Hugo’s “La confiance du marquis Fabrice”

When we are learning, almost by definition, we are going through the harrowing, humbling experience of recognizing how ignorant we really were up until this very minute.

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