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"this doesn't have to be a book for reading from the beginning chapter through to the end, it's equally of value to dip into now and then. amid the covid-19 lockdown, where i'm allowed one walk per day it has given me much to reflect upon about walking, this everyday activity which all of us do, but never really pay that much attention to." — Feb 07, 2021 03:47AM
"this doesn't have to be a book for reading from the beginning chapter through to the end, it's equally of value to dip into now and then. amid the covid-19 lockdown, where i'm allowed one walk per day it has given me much to reflect upon about walking, this everyday activity which all of us do, but never really pay that much attention to." — Feb 07, 2021 03:47AM
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
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“I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. I cannot march up and down their ranks to pass them in review before a friendly audience. You need not fear any of that. Instead, I must ask you to join me in the disorder of crates that have been wrenched open, the air saturated with the dust of wood, the floor covered with torn paper, to join me among piles of volumes that are seeing daylight again after two years of darkness, so that you may be ready to share with me a bit of the mood -- it is certainly not an elegiac mood but, rather, one of anticipation -- which these books arouse in a genuine collector.”
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“Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”
― I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
― I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
“Au fond, les gens ne lisent pas ; ou, s'ils lisent, ils ne comprennent pas ; ou, s'ils comprennent, ils oublient.”
― Sexus
― Sexus
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. The emotion derives from a double contact: on the one hand, a whole activity of discourse discreetly, indirectly focuses upon a single signified, which is "I desire you," and releases, nourishes, ramifies it to the point of explosion (language experiences orgasm upon touching itself); on the other hand, I enwrap the other in my words, I caress, brush against, talk up this contact, I extend myself to make the commentary to which I submit the relation endure. ”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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