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“The soul paints itself in our machines.”
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.”
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“How impossible, though, to turn one's back on all the horrors in the world; there had to be another way to live.”
― California
― California
“Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.”
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“At the moment of death, the soul's impressions are similar to those of initiates in the ways of the Great Mysteries.
First they rush along blindly, twisting and turning, on an endless, anxious journey through the shadows.
Then, just before the end, their fear reaches its height. Bathed in cold sweat, they shiver and tremble, utterly terrified.
This phase is almost immediately followed by a return to the light, a sudden illumination.
They are surrounded by a marvelous glow and move through pure places and meadows ringing with voices and dancing.
Sacred words inspire religious respect. The perfect initiate is free to celebrate the Mysteries.”
― Empire of the Ants
First they rush along blindly, twisting and turning, on an endless, anxious journey through the shadows.
Then, just before the end, their fear reaches its height. Bathed in cold sweat, they shiver and tremble, utterly terrified.
This phase is almost immediately followed by a return to the light, a sudden illumination.
They are surrounded by a marvelous glow and move through pure places and meadows ringing with voices and dancing.
Sacred words inspire religious respect. The perfect initiate is free to celebrate the Mysteries.”
― Empire of the Ants
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