To be great, be whole: nothing of Yours exaggerates or excludes. Be all in every thing. Put what you are The least you do. So in every lake the whole moon Shines, because it lives high. Odes by Ricardo Reis. Fernando Pessoa.
“Living is, essentially, appropriation, violation, domination of what is foreign and weaker, oppression, harshness, imposition of one's own form, incorporation and at least, in the most lenient of cases, expropriation. a philosophy of the future