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“I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
“Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“A day or two after my love pronouncement, now feral with vulnerability, I sent you the passage from Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes in which Barthes describes how the subject who utters the phrase “I love you” is like “the Argonaut renewing his ship during its voyage without changing its name.” Just as the Argo’s parts may be replaced over time but the boat is still called the Argo, whenever the lover utters the phrase “I love you,” its meaning must be renewed by each use, as “the very task of love and of language is to give to one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
“Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“For in Western culture, music itself is always in danger of being regarded as the feminine Other that circumvents reason and arouses desire.”
― Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
― Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
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The F-word
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