“We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.”
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
“To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.”
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
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