Eduardo Azevedo > Eduardo's Quotes

“we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”
― Oscar Wilde

“There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have a relationship with books in a library whether you’ve come specifically to read them or not.”
― Rem Koolhaas

“If less is more, maybe nothing is everything.”
― Rem Koolhaas

“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.”
― José Saramago, The Double

“Reading is probably another way of being in a place.”
― José Saramago, El hombre duplicado

“Se podes olhar, vê. Se podes ver, repara.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”
― Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

“The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.”
― Guy Debord

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
― Susan Sontag

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
― Susan Sontag

“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”
― Michel Foucault

“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”
― Michel Foucault

“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

“It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?”
― Gilles Deleuze

“Disagreement is not the conflict between one who says white and another who says black. It is the conflict between one who says white and another who also says white but does not understand the same thing by it.”
― Jacques Ranci

“When you will have made him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom.”
― Antonin Artaud

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner