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Over the years I have discovered that it is not uncommon to mention Bachelard and hear in return a sigh of happy recognition. I have sat at tables crowded with journalists, graphic artists, urban planners, therapists, sculptors, and
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“Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
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“I don't intend to let my intellect dominate me, and the last thing I want to do is worship knowledge or people who have knowledge! I don't give a damn for anyone's aggregation of facts, except that it be a reflection [of] basic sensitivity which I do demand... I intend to do everything... to have one way of evaluating experience—does it cause me pleasure or pain and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful—I shall anticipate pleasure everything and find it, too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly... everything matters! The only thing I resign is the power to resign, to retreat: the acceptance of sameness and the intellect. I am alive... I am beautiful... what else is there?”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all”
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“Was everything redneck actually mystical?”
― The First Bad Man
― The First Bad Man
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