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“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”
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“It is probably true that a man remains forever unknown to us and that there is in him something irreducible that escapes us.”
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“Does a country fall into fascism the way a person falls in love? Or, more accurately, in hate?”
― Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
― Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
“The slow and painful transformation of a passionate and narrowly egotistical being into a man who gives himself over wholly to some great work or other that devours him, destroys him, lives in his blood, is a trial every creative being must endure.”
― Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
― Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
“Any situation in which A objectively exploits B or hinders his pursuit of self-affirmation as a responsible person is an act of oppression. Such a situation in itself constitutes violence, even when sweetened by false generosity, because it interferes with the individual's ontological and historical vocation to be more fully human. With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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