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We, The Heartbroken

Book by Gargi Bhattacharyya · 4 quotes · Grief, Heartbreak, Hope

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“Grief reminds us, with some violence, that our selves are unbounded, and also that this reminder of unboundedness leads to the very edge of the abyss.”

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“Depressed heartbreak is rarely disruptive or demanding or loudly eccentric. Depressed heartbreak is like taking a step into death while looking like you have remembered how to behave. I think this tells us something about the half-deadness this world [under late capitalism] demands of us. Learning to go through the motions and not hope too much.”

Depression Heartbreak Capitalism Late Capitalism

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“Every doctrine of violence and machinery of reaction has relied on his frightening it is to contemplate the crushing of hope. Far safer to expel hope altogether. More sensible than the painful un-numbing of imagining other possibilities.”

Hope Fear Violence Hopelessness Dissociation Reactionary Politics Emotional Dissociation

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“For a while I believe I am flying, not falling.”

Hope Grief Perception Delusion

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