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“Critics established the right to say whatever they pleased about the dead. It is an absolute power, and the corruption that comes with it, very often, is an atrophy of the moral imagination. They move onto the living because they can no longer feel the difference between the living and the dead. They extend over the living that license to say whatever they please, to ransack their psyche and reinvent them however they please. They stand in front of classes and present this performance as exemplary civilized activity—this utter insensitivity towards other living human beings. Students see the easy power and are enthralled, and begin to outdo their teachers. For a person to be corrupted in that way is to be genuinely corrupted.”

Book:The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

This book delves into the personal and professional lives of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, examining their relationship and its impact on their work. It provides a detailed look at their literary partnership and the challenges they faced throughout their lives. more

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Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm is an American writer renowned for her profound insights into figures and culture. Her works often focus on celebrities, politics, and the media, and are praised for their unique narrative style and critical thinking. more

“The unification or “yog” of all humans in the psyche of the humans, that rises through simple human action or karma, with pure nonconflicted devotion or bhakti to the action and the self, while learning through healthy, effort-less effort or hatha and knowledge or gyana, is the king of all yoga, that is, raja yoga. This unification among humans is the real samadhi or nirvana in the civilized society of thinking humanity.”

Spirituality Meditation Yoga Oneness Nonduality Advaita Nirvana Bhakti Advaita Vedanta Raja Yoga

Book:Saint of The Sapiens

Source: Saint of The Sapiens

“What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.”

Appreciation Posthumous

Book:Gist of Art: Principles and Practice Expounded in the Classroom and Studio

Source: Gist of Art: Principles and Practice Expounded in the Classroom and Studio

“A posthumously, everyone loves us. (A titre posthume, - Tout le monde nous aime)”

Love Death Mort Posthumous Aimer Posthume

Author:Charles de Leusse

“The old are still accorded human rights. The dead, however, lose all rights from the very first second of death. No law protects them any longer from slander, their privacy has ceased to be private; not even the letters written to them by their loved ones, not even the family album left to them by their mothers, nothing, nothing belongs to them any longer.”