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“Art is not religion, “it doesn’t even lead to religion.” But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the gods are missing, the time of absence and exile, art is justified, for it is the intimacy of this distress: the effort to make manifest, through the image, the error of the imaginary, and eventually the ungraspable, forgotten truth which hides behind the error.”

— Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature

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Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation by Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong

“But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.”

Albert Camus, The Fall

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I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat.

― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Stories