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“If only you do not try to utter what is unutterable then nothing gets lost. But the unutterable will be—unutterably—contained in what has been uttered”
― Wittgenstein Ludwig

“There is a character in The Count of Monte Cristo who digs through solid rock for years and finally gets somewhere: he finds himself in another cell. It was that kind of moment.”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

“Today, love is being positivized into a formula for enjoyment. Above all, love is supposed to generate pleasant feelings. It no longer represents plot, narration, or drama - only inconsequential emotion and arousal. It is free from the negativity of injury, assault, or crashing. To fall (in love) would already be too negative. Yet it is precisely such negativity that constitutes love”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

“you eroticize what you’re not, secretly hoping that the other person knows what you’re performing and that they’re performing too.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick