“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
“Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.”
“Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving”
“In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.”
“Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”
“I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.”