That seditious activity: being alive
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Ceux qui vivent, ce sont ceux qui luttent… Car le plus lourd fardeau, c’est d’exister sans vivre. Those that live, are those that fight… For the heaviest burden is to exist without living. From “Taches” by Victor Hugo in 1853 (Thank you to Will...

Ai Weiwei’s Challenge

A petition for his release from the Chinese authorities. And Dangerous Arts, a letter by Salman Rushdie in the New York Times.An excerpt —>The lives of artists are more fragile than their creations. The poet Ovid was exiled by Augustus to a little hell-hole...
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