#2,890

“Escapism” is the imbecile’s favorite accusation to make.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#1,048

The problems of an “underdeveloped” country are the favorite pretext for leftist escapism.
Lacking new merchandise to offer to the European market, the leftist intellectual peddles his faded wares in the third world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 186

#867

The modern world bitterly censures those who “turn their back on life.”
As if it were possible to know with certainty that turning one’s back on life is not turning one’s face toward the light.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 158

#305

In a bourgeois country, just as in a Communist land, they disapprove of “escapism” as a solitary vice, as a debilitating and wretched perversion.
Modern society discredits the fugitive so that no one will listen to his account of his journeys. Art or history, man’s imagination or his tragic and noble destiny, these are not criteria which modern mediocrity will tolerate.
“Escapism” is the fleeting vision of abolished splendors and the probability of an implacable verdict on today’s society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 67