"I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity."

-- Maurice Blanchot

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“It was not the right-wing Russians or the gun-toting settlers who carried out the Nakba. The Nakba is the legacy of Zionism's putatively socialist wing. It was the grandfathers and mothers of the "enlightened public" of today's Israel who literally drove tens of thousands of indigenous Palestinians into the sea in 1947-48 all along the Mediterranean coast, or who marched them at gunpoint to Ramallah.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.”
“Dreams grow holy put in action.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.111
“We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.”
“Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.”
“WHY did we start doing WHAT weâ€™re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?”
“Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.”

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