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pernicious characteristic is their ability to adapt to anything. First, Gestapo
camps; now, here’” (1986: 26).
• “‘It’s not history, which is actuality, but history’s opposite, death, which
shows us that women are nothing and everything.’ Having found the answer to
her problem, Don Quixote shut up for a moment” (1986: 31).
• “Inasmuch as nothing human is eternal but death, and death is the one thing
about which human beings can’t know anything, humans know nothing. They
have to fail. To do and be the one thing they don’t know. Don Quixote realized
that her faith was gone” (1986: 35).
• “Wars are raging everywhere. Males dumber than non-human animals’re
running the economic and political world. I want. What do I want? Is it wrong to
want life?” (1986: 69)
• “The liberty for love, the liberty for instinctual roaming, the liberty for
friendship, the liberty for hatred, the liberty for fantasy: all of these have faded”
(1986: 69).
• “Maybe I could enter that society. They said, ‘Here, dog. Play along with us
and we’ll let you into society so you’ll begin to have a few friends.’ What dog
wouldn’t lick a little? What man here is so naïve that he is too purist to survive?
But I’ll tell you something: the tongue that licks their hands, even slightly, is
torn out. They are the monsters of intelligent torture. (Looks around him.
Confused:) Who are they? Who’s out there? Where are you, people who hide in
total sufficiency and your lack of need, you people whom I hate?” (1986: 84)
• “America’s the land of freedom. That is, America’s the land of the myth or
belief of freedom. Why? Cause in England, the Motherland against which
America revolted for the sake of freedom, a dog’s life had been (and is)
determined by the class and history into which it was born. The American dogs
didn’t want to live dogs’ lives. They wanted to make their own lives and they
succeeded. The self-made American dog has only itself and it must make
success, that is survive. It isn’t able to love, especially, another dog” (1986:
112).
• “‘Virgin Mary, tell me: How can people who can no longer love give birth?’
‘Even though you don’t exist, love: every day in every minute I talk to you
because I must. Because if there’s someone in me, even only in fantasy, I’m not
always up against my own loneliness. I’m not always in the scream which is
death. Death is the only absolute, the object that can be known, the only human
knowing. You’re my unknowing heart. Virgin. Bitch. If there’s chance, there
must be love.’” (1986: 161).
• “‘If imagination still exists in this world – which could be doubtful,’ Don
Quixote explained, ‘there must be an Imaginer. Otherwise imagination, imagining
itself, isn’t imagination. It is possible that there is no imagination, that this world is
dead. Otherwise, there must be an imaginer’” (1986: 181).
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