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“Hung on my bedroom wall is the quote attributed to Joan of Arc: “I am not afraid. I was born to do this.” However my life unfolds, goes my thinking, is how I am meant to live it; however my life unspools itself, I was created to bear it.”

— Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias

liberatingreality

People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.

Amin Maalouf, The First Century After Beatrice

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Younguk Yi — „Portrait of someone who seems to listen, yet relies more on gestures, glances, and pauses than words themselves” (acrylic on linen, 2024)

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“Believing, as I firmly do believe, that human nature, as a whole, contains more good than evil, I am willing to trust the whole, rather than a part, in the conduct of human affairs.”

— Frederick Douglass, “Who and What Is Woman? (1886)”