Where there is power, there is resistance

― Michel Foucault

Ông trời nhiều khi chơi ác, đem đày ải những cái thuần khiết vào giữa đống cạn bã. Và những người có tâm điền tốt và thẳng thắn, lại phải ăn đời ở kiếp với lũ quay quắt.

― Nguyễn Tuân

For me the autumn has never been a sad season. The dead leaves and the increasingly shorter days have never suggested the end of anything, but rather an expectation of the future. In paris, there is an electricity in the air in october evenings at nightfall. Even when it is raining. i do not feel low at that hour of the day, nor do i have the sense of time flying by. i have the impression that everything is possible. the year begins in the month of october

― Patrick Modiano