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Coup de Grâce

Book by Sofia Ajram · 6 quotes · Depression, Hope, Liminal Space

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“I have no idea what to believe I’ll find in here anymore. You could park a Costco in one of these rooms and I’d just nod along once I found it, like, Uh-huh. Okay, sure. Of course.”

Humour Depression Architecture Brutalism Liminal Space

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“Yet, despite all that, I sometimes relapse into hope. Just as Orpheus, just as Lot’s wife, at times I turn, as a result of sudden, mad temptation for the lust of life, of love, of remembering, and look back upon living with fondness, and embrace uncertainty.”

Hope Despair Suicidal Thoughts Orpheus

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“Replete is the body which holds for us these sublime ecstasies, replete with sanctity and graces, all of it so briefly; it glitters wondrously on the ground, then extinguishes like a flame.”

Love Life Poetry Hope

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“And if it’s not me, it’s someone else. There are a million ways in which the body is stolen from us—debt and interest and data and labour and literal tissue and blood that can be harvested, and affective, sexual, and emotional energy. Capitalists, which clutch and pry and feed, dreaming up ways in which they can make your body not your own, and when the last drop of blood is exhausted they’ll have the audacity to bill you for it.”

Body Depression Capitalism Labor Mental Health Oppression Anticapitalism

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“Isn’t that what sickness is? A violence, in need of direction, channeled inward?”

Disease Depression Suicide Sickness Suicidal Thoughts Liminal Space

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“Il racconto è scritto in prima persona e messo in bocca al personaggio principale, procedimento per il quale io ho una certa predilezione perché elimina dal libro il punto di vista dell'autore, o almeno i suoi commenti, e perché permette di mostrare un essere umano che fronteggia la sua stessa vita e si sforza più o meno onestamente di spiegarla e innanzitutto di ricordarsela.”

Marguerite Yourcenar Il Colpo Di Grazia

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