Eric

“Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection -> Encyclopedias are impossible -> I would say: the more information grows, the more knowledge retreats and therefore the more decision is partial (terroristic, dogmatic) -> “I don’t know,” “I refuse to judge”: as scandalous as an agrammatical sentence: doesn’t belong to the language of the discourse. Variations on the “I don’t know.” The obligation to “be interested” in everything that is imposed on you by the world: prohibition of noninterest, even if provisional . . . .”
― Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978

“A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“It is the end of a fine bronze-tinted afternoon with purple shadows and febrile scraps of cloud.”
― Daniel Arsand

“And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek.”
― Daniel Arsand, Lovers