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“Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance. ”
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Roland Barthes
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“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
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William Faulkner,
As I Lay Dying
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
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Simone Weil
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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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Simone Weil
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“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
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Simone Weil
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“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”
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Simone Weil
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“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”
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Simone Weil,
Waiting for God
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“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”
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Simone Weil,
Lectures on Philosophy
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“Desire is impossible: it destroys its object. Lovers cannot be one, nor can Narcissus be two. Don Juan, Narcissus. Because to desire something is impossible, we have to desire what is nothing”
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Simone Weil,
Gravity And Grace
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