shock + awe by asa ghoreyeb

“Perhaps the problem is not the intensity of your love but the quality of the people you are loving.”

“People will stare. Make it worth their while.”

“It is the first sign that animal has become man when his actions are no longer directed to the procurement of momentary wellbeing but to enduring wellbeing, that man has thus become attuned to utility and purpose: it is then that the free domination of reason first breaks forth.”

“Just as the bones, flesh, intestines and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes the sight of man endurable, so the agitations and passions of the soul are enveloped in vanity: it is the skin of the soul.”

That […] mixture of sensuality and cruelty which has always seemed to me to be the real “witches’ brew.”