“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
― Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
― Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
“Pragmatism reflects a society that has no time to remember and meditate.”
― Eclipse of Reason
― Eclipse of Reason
“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”
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“Why, despite the blinding brightness, did everything look gray? It was as if the painfully sharp lights were helpless to dispel all the darkness the people had brought in from the night outside.”
― Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
― Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
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