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Henry Miller
“I am speaking naturally of that world which is peculiar to the big cities, the world of men and women whose last drop of juice has been squeezed out by the machine—the martyrs of modern progress. It is this mass of bones and collar buttons which the painter finds so difficult to put flesh on.”
Henry Miller

Clarice Lispector
“It was in his nature to be able to possess an idea and not know how to think it: obfuscated, persistent, tossing seeds...”
Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City

Aldous Huxley
“When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when ‘the sea flows in our veins… and the stars are our jewels’, when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?”
Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Marguerite Duras
“She is there. Mingled with both the colors and the shadow. Ever sad from some ill unknown to her. Born like that. With that blue in her eyes.”
Marguerite Duras, Blue Eyes, Black Hair

“The biological, with the notion of inevitability it implies, becomes more than an object of spiritual life. It becomes its heart. The mysterious urgings of the blood..lose the character of problems to be solved by a sovereignly free self. Because the self is made of just these elements. Our essences no longer lie in freedom but in a kind of chaining.”
Emanuel Levinas

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