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The King's English
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Djuna Barnes
“We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. We sleep in a long reproachful dust against ourselves. We are full to the gorge with our own names for misery. Life, the pastures in which the night feeds and prunes the cud that nourishes us to despair. Life, the permission to know death. We were created that the earth might be made sensible of her inhuman taste; and love that the body might be so dear that even the earth should roar with it. Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy.”
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

Djuna Barnes
“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
tags: pain

George Steiner
“[...] after Spinoza, philosophers know that they are using language to clarify language, like cutters using diamonds to shape other diamonds. Language is seen no longer as a road to demonstrable truth, but as a spiral or gallery of mirrors bringing the intellect back to its point of departure.”
George Steiner

Blaise Pascal
“What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.”
Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Charlie Chaplin
“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter Geraldine

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