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“The house always smells like good food,” said Piotr. “It’s the perfume of love.”
― Enchantment
― Enchantment
“Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. “We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.”
― Celebration of Discipline
― Celebration of Discipline
“tchotchke”
― Oona Out of Order
― Oona Out of Order
“Mother’s ironic vision of life as one prank after another, in the midst of which you did what was needed.”
― Enchantment
― Enchantment
“Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. “We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.”2 Where planned obsolescence leaves off, psychological obsolescence takes over. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick.”
― Celebration of Discipline
― Celebration of Discipline
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