Moira Leonard
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Moira Leonard
as the years go by and I am only feeling more loved, I am starting to realize that not only did I never imagine that I will be loved, but that the love I did allow myself to imagine at my least low moments was still so much smaller and restrained and manicured than what I now know that I can actually have.
“The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters”- James Baldwin, Another Country, page 198
The pace at which we’re creating new words, then recontextualizing their meanings in hyperbolic, meme, and joke formats, is moving faster than ever before, in our age of relentless online discourse.
Ruby Justice Thelot • The Balkanization and Babelification of the Internet
« He had often thought of his loneliness, for example, as a condition which testified to his superiority. But people who were not superior were, nevertheless, extremely lonely — and unable to break out of their solitude precisely because they had no equipment with which to enter it. His own loneliness, magnified so many times, made the night air
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« Enfin j’ai choisi cela mais dire que je l’ai vraiment choisi est une autre affaire, tu ne trouves pas qu’on est bien plutôt mené pas les événements ? » Mémoire de Fille, Annie Ernaux
years ago someone suggested using the word devotion instead of discipline and I swear it’s the only reason I am so committed to the things that I love ~ bc devotion is an act of love ~ while discipline feels like an act of force
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« Ne suis-je pas plutôt en butte à ce problème : saisir et comprendre le comportement de cette fille, Annie D, son bonheur et sa souffrance, en les situant par rapport aux règles et aux croyances de la société d’il y a un demi-siècle, à une normalité évidente pour tout le monde, à l’exception d’une petite frange d Elsa société plus ‘évoluée’, dont ni elle ni les autres de la colonie faisaient partie. »
Annie Ernaux « mémoire de fille » 2016
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Paulo Freire and the pedagogy of the oppressed
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Paulo Freire and the pedagogy of the oppressed
142K views
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3yr