Julia Kulgavchuk
https://www.goodreads.com/arsschematica
“Хорошо знать, что внутри у нас есть кто-то, кто все знает, всего желает, все делает лучше, чем мы сами.”
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“Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. Wabi-sabi is ambivalent about separating beauty from non-beauty or ugliness. The beauty of wabi-sabi is in one respect, the condition of coming to terms with what you consider ugly. Wabi-sabi suggests that beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. Beauty can spontaneously occur at any moment given the proper circumstances, context, or point of view. Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace.”
― Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
― Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
“I’ve taken to long-distance walking as a means of dissolving the mechanised matrix which compresses the space-time continuum, and decouples human from physical geography. So this isn’t walking for leisure -- that would be merely frivolous, or even for exercise -- which would be tedious. No, to underscore the seriousness of my project I like a walk which takes me to a meeting or an assignment; that way I can drag other people into my eotechnical world view. ‘How was your journey?’ they say. ‘Not bad,’ I reply. ‘Take long?’ they enquire. ‘About ten hours,’ I admit. ‘I walked here.’ My interlocutor goggles at me; if he took ten hours to get here, they’re undoubtedly thinking, will the meeting have to go on for twenty? As Emile Durkheim so sagely observed, a society’s space-time perceptions are a function of its social rhythm and its territory. So, by walking to the business meeting I have disrupted it just as surely as if I’d appeared stark naked with a peacock’s tail fanning out from my buttocks while mouthing Symbolist poetry.”
― Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place
― Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place
“GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Не могу понять, почему разговоры на религиозную тему должны быть такими утомительными. Я знаю: быть верующим трудно. Воскресение из мертвых, вечное блаженство... Мария часто читала мне из Библии. Трудно, должно быть, верить во все это. Позже я взялся за Кьеркегора (весьма полезное чтение для начинающего клоуна), и это тоже было трудно, но не так утомительно.”
― Ansichten eines Clowns. Interpretationen. Inhalt, Hintergrund, Interpretationen. (Lernmaterialien): Böll: Ansichten Eines Clowns
― Ansichten eines Clowns. Interpretationen. Inhalt, Hintergrund, Interpretationen. (Lernmaterialien): Böll: Ansichten Eines Clowns
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