Those who talk of revolution without explicit referent to everyday life or understanding what is subversive about love, such people have a corpse in their mouths.
my emotions don’t really make sense right now. i keep catching myself at the edge of saying things i don’t believe, so i can express anything at all. i’m pretty sad about nothing in particular and im frustrated that i have nothing worth saying any longer. all my statements are flat and hollow.
Compassion is the most agreeable feeling for those who have little pride and no prospect of great conquests; for them, easy prey - and that is what those who suffer are - is something enchanting. Compassion is praised as the virtue of the gay lady.
- Nietzsche, The Gay Science, §13
The relation of labor to the act of production within the labor process: activity as suffering, strength as weakness, begetting as emasculating, the worker's physical and mental energy as an activity which is turned against him, independent and not belonging to him. Here we have self-estrangement.
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All of us, without exception, are obliged to live lives pretty much at loggerheads with our ideals; but we are socialists and anarchists because of and to the extent that we are irked by this contradiction, and strive to reduce it to a minimum.