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“Hutte was always saying that, in the end, we are all "beach men" and that "the sand"--I am quoting his own words-- keeps the traces of our footsteps only a few moment”
― Patrick Modiano, Rue des Boutiques Obscures

tags: authors-no-one-reads, nobel-prize-in-literature

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“The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

tags: art, post-modernism, transcendence

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“A thing which has lost its idea is like the man who has lost his shadow, and it must either fall under the sway of madness or perish.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

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“The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?”
― Patrick Modiano, Rue des Boutiques Obscures

tags: nobel-prize-in-literature

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“Strange people. The kind that leave the merest blur behind them, soon vanished. Hutte and I often used to talk about these traceless beings. They spring up out of nothing one fine day and return there, having sparkled a little. Beauty queens. Gigolos. Butterflies. Most of them, even when alive, had no more substance than steam which will never condense.”
― Patrick Modiano, Missing Person

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