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the slender thread of his gaze inspo/misc topic/literary-theory

[...] The writer, in opposition to bourgeois ideology, chose to speak to us of things at the privileged moment when all the concrete relations which united him with the objects were broken, save the slender thread of his gaze, and when they gently undid themselves to his eyes, untied sheaves of exq…

—p.182 What is Literature? Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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the great polar night of the inhuman inspo/misc

[...] they no longer felt humanity as a limitless milieu. It was a thin flame within them which they alone kept alive. It kept itself going in the silence which they opposed to their executioners. About them was nothing but the great polar night of the inhuman and of unknowingness, which they did n…

—p.170 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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anguish and yellow sky at the same time inspo/misc topic/literary-theory

What is valid for the elements of artistic creation is also valid for their combinations. The painter does not want to draw signs on his canvas, he wants to create a thing. And if he puts together red, yellow, and green, there is no reason why this collection of colours should have a definable sign…

—p.2 What is Writing? (1) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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we actually set out to save the world inspo/interiority

We actually set out to save the world. That is what was insane — not ten-year-old warlords with bad breath and voodoo fetishes in Liberia, not Matt's assassin, not the boss in Somalia who set us up for an ambush in exchange for a fifteen percent kickback on the judges' salaries, not the Hutu mil…

—p.294 Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone Return to Normal (281) by Kenneth Cain
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let the dead bury the dead inspo/interiority

I set out to save lives and have ended up collecting the dead. Somewhere along the line, I lost sight of treating people and became obsessed with my own grandiose ideals of service. But there is no redemption in this. I've worked myself into the ground only to end up doing the very thing my parents…

—p.255 Condition Echo (249) by Andrew Thomson