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“Maybe what she meant was that obviously she wasn't a lady because there was no way she could be. To be ordinary, as if pride were not the first manifestations of shame.”
― The End of Eddy
― The End of Eddy
“The things we remember most clearly are always those that bring us shame.”
― Histoire de la violence
― Histoire de la violence
“For the ruling class, in general, politics is a question of aesthetics: a way of seeing themselves, of seeing the world, of constructing a personality. For us it was life or death.”
― Qui a tué mon père
― Qui a tué mon père
“To acquire a world of his own, the profane man has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt the opposite of an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present to him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being”
― The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
― The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
“She has no name for that feeling of utter abandonment, nor the feeling that comes over her on fair days, when she stands in the courtyard from the photo, and the voice of the loudspeaker booms front behind the trees, and the music and commercials run together in an unintelligible blur. It is as if she were standing outside the fete, separated from some earlier thing.”
― Les Années
― Les Années
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