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Paul Bowles
“Ook drong het niet tot haar door dat ze een keer gedacht had, dat als Port eerder doodging dan zij, ze niet werkelijk zou geloven dat hij dood was, maar eerder dat hij op de een of andere manier in zichzelf was teruggegaan, om daar te blijven, en dat hij zich nooit meer van haar bewust zou zijn, zodat in werkelijkheid zij het was die opgehouden had te bestaan, tenministe in belangrijke mate. Zij zou degene zijn die gedeeltelijk het rijk van de dood was ingegaan, terwijl hij zou voortbestaan, een verdriet binnen in haar, een deur die ongeopend was gebleven, een reddeloos verloren kans. (p. 173-174)”
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

Seneca
“What man
can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is
dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed,
Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.”
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

Banksy
“On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.”
Banksy, Wall and Piece

Seneca
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Seneca

Roland Barthes
“Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict (the choice of one term against another), and all conflict is generative of meaning: to choose one and refuse the other is always a sacrifice made to meaning, to produce meaning, to offer it to be consumed.”
Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978

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