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“I would like to grasp why it is that these two activities, falling in love and coming to know, make me feel genuinely alive. There is something like an electrification in them.”
― Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
― Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
“Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
“Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has
been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not
grown.”
― To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not
grown.”
― To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
“Today’s ego, with its “endless capacity to enunciate and refine criteria in mate selection,”10 does not desire.”
― The Agony of Eros
― The Agony of Eros
“However paradoxical it may seem, myth hides nothing: its function is to distort, not to make disappear.”
― Mythologies
― Mythologies
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