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“The essential point of view advanced here is this: the stability of every
living being, as of every structurally stable form, rests, in the last analysis, on a for-
mal structure—in fact, a geometrical object—whose biochemical realization is the
living being.”
― Morphogenèse et imaginaire (Circé)
living being, as of every structurally stable form, rests, in the last analysis, on a for-
mal structure—in fact, a geometrical object—whose biochemical realization is the
living being.”
― Morphogenèse et imaginaire (Circé)
“However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.”
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“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”
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“During that course in which "I" become, I give birth to myself amid the violence of sobs, of vomit.”
― Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
― Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
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