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  • #1
    Marcel Duchamp
    “As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.”
    Marcel Duchamp

  • #2
    Siri Hustvedt
    “The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.”
    Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

  • #3
    Siri Hustvedt
    “I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.”
    Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

  • #4
    Siri Hustvedt
    “That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.”
    Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American

  • #5
    Siri Hustvedt
    “Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.”
    Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

  • #6
    Siri Hustvedt
    “Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.”
    Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American

  • #7
    Siri Hustvedt
    “The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.”
    Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

  • #8
    Jean Genet
    “I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.”
    Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers

  • #9
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”
    Gilles Deleuze

  • #10
    Gilles Deleuze
    “If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
    Gilles Deleuze

  • #11
    Gilles Deleuze
    “The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.”
    Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

  • #12
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.”
    Gilles Deleuze

  • #13
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.”
    Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues

  • #14
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.”
    Gilles Deleuze

  • #15
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)”
    Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations 1972-1990

  • #16
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us.”
    Gilles Deleuze

  • #17
    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #19
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    “One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
    Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

  • #20
    Samuel Beckett
    “Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #21
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “How awful," he said, "the way time passes!”
    Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: times

  • #22
    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    Raymond Carver

  • #23
    Victor Hugo
    “Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #24
    Victor Hugo
    “I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #25
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I have learned that men live not by selfishness, but by love.”
    Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live by and Other Tales



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