It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves.

There is a wonderful expression in Persian$$$ <i>war nam nihadan</i>$$$ which means "to murder somebody$$$ bury his body$$$ then grow flowers over the body to conceal it."

Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology; we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting$$$ 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling$$$ 'Better red than eating hamburgers.'

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

And no more turn aside and brood<br>Upon love's bitter mystery;

One had a lovely face$$$<br>And two or three had charm$$$<br>But charm and face were in vain<br>Because the mountain grass<br>annot but keep the form<br>Where the mountain hare has lain.

There is some Myth for every man$$$ which$$$ if we but knew it$$$ would make us understand all that he did and thought.

Of all the many changing things<br>In dreary dancing past us whirled$$$<br>To the cracked tune that Chronos sings$$$<br>Words alone are certain good.