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There are things that one can only see properly with eyes that have wept.

Henri Lacordaire

Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2012)

What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly.

Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1992)

I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we have first changed ourselves.

Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life: the Diaries and Letters of EttyHillesum 1941–1943 (London: Persephone Books, 1999)

This is not so much a return to the earth as a return to ourselves. A spiritual experience. It is to heal, rediscover and reaffirm ourselves.

Tee Corinne, quoted in Françoise Flamant, Women’s Land. Construction d’une utopie: Oregon, États-Unis, 1970–2010 (Donnemarie-Dontilly: Éditions iXe, 2015)

You say that there are no words to describe these times, you say that they do not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or if necessary, invent.

Monique Wittig, Les Guérillères (Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1969)