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The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as…

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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in…
The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of…
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND…
Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime,…
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in…
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of…
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists…
I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the…
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done…
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your…

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