"'...You have to accept that sometimes that's how the things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.'/ 'It might be just s…
"But I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance...By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing …
"Something of popular sovereignty remains untranslatable, nontransferable, and even unsubstitutable, which is why it can both elect and dissolve regimes. As much as popular sovereignty legitimates parliamentary forms of power, it also reta…
"A story is like a letter. 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘠𝘰𝘶, I’ll say. Just 𝘺𝘰𝘶, without a name. Attaching a name attaches you to the world of fact, which is riskier, more hazardous...𝘠𝘰𝘶 can mean more than one./ 𝘠𝘰𝘶 can mean thousands." (Atwood. The Handmaid's T…
"If I did not fear being mistaken for a sentimentalist, then I would say that culture requires love: what is lacking is probably the ability to love...anyone in want of this ability should hardly teach others." (Adorno. "Philosophy and Tea…
"For just as little as one can understand what is new and young without being at home in tradition, so, too, love for the old must remain inauthentic and sterile if one closes off to the new, which arises from the old out of historical nec…