“self-punishment paranoia”. Lacan argued that, in striking the actress, Aimée was in fact striking herself:
“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
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is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
―
“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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