Gabriel Avocado

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“The Malleus Maleficarum, the definitive guide for witch hunters published in 1486, wrote of a woman who stole dozens of penises, then hid them in a tree where they lived like birds in a nest.”
― David M. Friedman, A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis

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“No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

tags: how-to-keep-house-while-drowning, mental-health, shame

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“I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more than just the people trying to destroy us.”
― B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

tags: abuse, queer, self-destruction, suicide, survival

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“There is no name for what life should be, except
what you did and what you do to my soul.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

tags: life, poetry, soul

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“At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

tags: capitalism, colonialism, culture, fascism, imperialism

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