“How could I castrate my mind – neuter it! – and build up a resistance to know what was mine from what was everyone else’s, and finally be in the world in my own way? That endless capacity for empathy – which you have to really kill in order to act freely, to know your own desires!”

“How could I castrate my mind – neuter it! – and build up a resistance to know what was mine from what was everyone else’s, and finally be in the world in my own way? That endless capacity for empathy – which you have to really kill in order to act freely, to know your own desires!”

— Sheila Heti