Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

A lot of traditional leftist rhetoric stemmed from obsolete work-ethic notions: the bourgeois were bad because they didn’t do productive work, whereas the worthy proletarians deserved the fruits of their labor, etc. As labor has become increasingly unnecessary and directed to increasingly absurd ends, this perspective has lost whatever sense it may once have had. The point is not to praise the proletariat, but to abolish it.

Perhaps
we should love ourselves
so fiercely
that when others see us
they know exactly
how it should be done.

Innocence, once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.

Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival.

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

Your scars are a warning to all future monsters, of the hell you have survived before them, every demon you vanquished, and every battle you won.

we are taught to serve others
before we serve ourselves,
yet we are blamed
when we do not love ourselves
before giving our love away.