I live in a kind of tension between the will to say yes to my suffering, and my inability to utter this yes with complete sincerity.

humankind can not bear very much reality

estragon: we lost our rights.
vladimir: we got rid of them.

Eugene Ravsky (Ukranian, b.1966), Excerpt III, 2014, oil on canvas

Anne Carson - Plainwater

How can you be true and
kind at the same time?
How?