Quotes - Jared Levinson (Toronto, ON, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 74

#1

“The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.”
― Georges Bataille

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#2

“I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.”
― Charles Baudelaire

284 likes

#3

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

tags: beasts, charles-baudelaire, conversations, eat, eaten, heart, les-fleurs-du-mal, lost, poem, poetry, the-flowers-of-evil

339 likes

#4

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#5

“A multitude of small delights constitute happiness”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#6

“To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: flâneur

116 likes

#7

“An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.”
― Baudelaire Charles 1821-1867 Charles

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#8

“And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”
― charles baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

tags: kiss, lips

128 likes

#9

“I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.”
― Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida

tags: communication, deconstruction, influence, understanding, writing

153 likes

#10

“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”
― Jaques Derrida

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#11

“Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.”
― Jacques Derrida

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#12

“The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: livinglanguagedeadlanguage

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#13

“Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.”
― Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship

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#14

“who
is invisible enough
to see you”
― Paul Celan

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#15

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

tags: burdens, memory, poems, poetry, remembering

1032 likes

#16

“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

tags: hope

246 likes

#17

“Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

tags: friendship, touching

194 likes

#18

“Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.”
― Anne Carson

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#19

“Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.”
― Anne Carson

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#20

“Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.”
― Anne Carson

81 likes

#21

“They were two superior eels
at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

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#22

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”
― Anne Carson

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#23

“It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.”
― Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

98 likes

#24

“a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.”
― Octavio Paz

tags: human-being

57 likes

#25

“To love is to undress our names.”
― Octavio Paz

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#26

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks

tags: awarness, giving-others-space, love, manners, self-care, self-confidence

846 likes

#27