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“Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

tags: reading

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“When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

tags: aristotle, stories

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“It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

tags: 98, footsteps, pedestrianism, walking

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“Every story is a travel story – a spatial practice.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

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“The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

tags: 97, footsteps, trace, walking

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