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The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

by Oksana Zabuzhko

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NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance

by Sten Rynning

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Jul 24, 2024 03:54AM

“I have often looked at photographs of writers in their elegant book-lined studies and marvelled at what seems to me a mirage of sorts, the near-perfect alignment of seeming with being, the convincing illusion of mental processes on public display, as though writing a book were not the work of someone capable of all the shame and deviousness and cold-heartedness in the world.”
― Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays

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“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann

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“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

tags: barbarians, civilization, culture, double-standards, morality, normalcy, perception, perspective, prejudice, society, standards

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“Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

tags: dreams, home, space

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