Nothing is one’s own, nothing, certainly not oneself, because the imagination is atrophied, like some limb, dead and hanging useless, and the dull repetition of programmed sexual fantasy has replaced it.
TaeTaehas quoted4 months ago
“It is really quite impossible, ” writes James Baldwin, “to be affirmative about anything which one refuses to question; one is doomed to remain inarticulate about anything which one hasn’t, by an act of imagination, made one’s own.
TaeTaehas quoted4 months ago
And so, we are inarticulate about sex, even though we talk about it all the time
TaeTaehas quoted4 months ago
Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more—also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge, and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
TaeTaehas quoted4 months ago
Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more—also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge, and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
TaeTaehas quoted4 months ago
True rebels, after all, are as rare as true lovers
TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
True rebels, after all, are as rare as true lovers, and, in both cases, to mistake a fever