The Personal is Political. The Political is Personal.

 
Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1956

Desire has reserved to itself the pure negating of the object and thereby unalloyed feeling of self.

This satisfaction, however, just for that reason is itself only a state of evanescence, for it lacks objectivity or subsistence.

Labour, on the other hand, is desire restrained and checked, evanescence delayed and postponed; in other words, labour shapes and fashions the thing.

from Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, on "Self-Consciousness."

I know my way down the side streets now.

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Dolly Mixture, "Side Street Walker"

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