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Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?

Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?
– Rebecca Solnit

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  3. If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one’s feet is real in a way reading with one’s eyes alone is not. – Rebecca Solnit
  4. … a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. – Rebecca Solnit
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  6. In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed. – Rebecca Solnit
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  8. …the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork. – Rebecca Solnit
  9. …explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge. – Rebecca Solnit
  10. Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. – Rebecca Solnit
  11. Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. – Rebecca Solnit
  12. At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. – Rebecca Solnit
  13. The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. – Rebecca Solnit
  14. Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss. – Rebecca Solnit
  15. Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. – Rebecca Solnit
  16. The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. – Rebecca Solnit
  17. …I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival… – Rebecca Solnit
  18. No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more. – Rebecca Solnit
  19. I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last. – Rebecca Solnit
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  21. the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality. – Rebecca Solnit
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  24. Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself. – Rebecca Solnit
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  26. A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. – Rebecca Solnit
  27. Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it. – Rebecca Solnit
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  31. He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
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  33. Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. – Terry Eagleton
  34. The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along. – HW Brands
  35. By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them. – Christian Dior
  36. Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop new ideas. – Dirk Kurbjuweit
  37. Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain. – Stephen Jay Gould
  38. In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success. – MF Moonzajer
  39. History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  40. Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. – Hannah Arendt

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