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eructation
The German Ideology.
eleventh thesis on Feuerbach.
effluvia),
victuals—now
iniquitous
Death in Venice
Mahler
l...
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forced to listen to inane nonsense fit for the brain of a clam—I was in the back room, perfectly euphoric, my eyes filling with tears, in the miraculous presence of Art.
lucidity
People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn’t be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
Madame Guermantes,”
Sanseverina”).
Taniguchi
Grandes Jorasses
poètes maudits
fortiori
pariahs
clandestine
virtuosity.
patrician
incunabulum,”
arrondissement
when we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same time not here because we’re already in the process of going elsewhere, if you see what I mean. To stop de-structuring yourself, you have to stop moving altogether. Either you move and you’re no longer whole, or you’re whole and you can’t move.
What makes the strength of a soldier isn’t the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it’s the strength he’s able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered.
doleful
ensconced
biddy.
loquacious
disquisition
“War and Peace is the staging of a determinist vision of history”
factotum
subalterns
windbags
Balzac
Flaubert
autodidacts,
indigent
Husserl,
Descartes and Kant.
ala...
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equivocation.
debility.
mise en abyme,”
humans live in a world where it’s words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language.
Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.
prerogative
nihilized,
opprobrium.
