I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the "I". One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: writing ego



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If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: fear loneliness



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Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: cliches relating



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He fidgets. Thinks. Observes his fellow passengers. Judges everyone, in the traditional Filipino sport of justifying both personal and shared insecurities.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: insecurity filipino



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The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: humanity tyranny slavery revolutions



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We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: reading books fiction



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Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale

Miguel Syjuco

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...just because an ideology dies doesn't mean the value of its ideas is nullified

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: ideology



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...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: forgiveness



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Because falling, if you live in the moment,is really just flying, at least until you read the ground

Miguel Syjuco


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