"Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples."

-- John Rawls

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“I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear”
“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.”
“People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.”
“Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.”
“The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press
“When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.”
“The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.”

Source : Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.”

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