Elaine R.S. > Elaine R.S.'s Quotes

“I write because I wish to make for ideas, which are my ideas, a place in the world. If I could foresee that these ideas must take from you peace of mind and repose, if in these ideas that I sow I should see the germs of bloody wars and even the cause of the ruins of many generations, I would nevertheless continue to spread them. It is neither for the love of you nor even for the love of truth that I express what I think. No—I sing! I sing because I am a singer. If I use you in this way, it is because I have need of your ears.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“Even if it's meaningless . . . sometimes, nice things happen.”
― Tsukumizu, Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 1

“... un auteur ne nuit jamais tant à ses lecteurs que quand il dissimule une difficulté.”
― Évariste Galois

“I have done everything to know what is knowable and I have looked for that which is unformulatable in my depths. I myself am in a world I recognize as profoundly inaccessible to me: in all the ties that I sought to bind it with, I still don't know what I can conquer, and I remain in a kind of despair.”
― Georges Bataille, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

“I rightly pass for an atheist.”
― Jacques Derrida