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… I said, “Why do the others ·[seem?]· content to fly about, singing and eating, day after day, bathed by the warm zephyrs, soaring round the towers, yet inside me this ·[sickness?]·…” … the hoopoe, vice-undersecretary to the viceroy of
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“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Anna and the French Kiss
― Anna and the French Kiss
“Man is obsessed with woman (this does not seem to be mutual). Possession does not set him free from obsession. Above and beyond jouissance, his obsession with her remains. It is an obsession with something like an eternally feminine prior state, an idea or fleshly form which was there before you and will outlive you. All other obsessions refer back to this one.
It is fuelled by the secret desire to wrest from woman more than she gives you or has ever given you, to wrest from her her femininity itself. Woman-as-object is the purest expression of this obsession, since it is the object that is ungraspable. And it is in becoming-object that woman puts herself out of reach, and becomes the horizon of the obsessional desire.
Just as it would be necessary to remove many other veils to wrest from women the secret of their power, so it would take many other tortures to wrest from men the secret underlying their unafraidness of death.”
― Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
It is fuelled by the secret desire to wrest from woman more than she gives you or has ever given you, to wrest from her her femininity itself. Woman-as-object is the purest expression of this obsession, since it is the object that is ungraspable. And it is in becoming-object that woman puts herself out of reach, and becomes the horizon of the obsessional desire.
Just as it would be necessary to remove many other veils to wrest from women the secret of their power, so it would take many other tortures to wrest from men the secret underlying their unafraidness of death.”
― Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“I know I don’t always show it, but you are the best thing that has ever happened to me. Let’s make your birthday the very special celebration it should be, and I’ll remind you of just how much you mean to me. I love you!”
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“But if you think there’s any chance that I could make you happy, I wish you would let me try. Because it’s the only thing I really want to do with my life.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“The day you were born
Heaven wept at its great loss,
Earth joyed at its gain.”
― Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
Heaven wept at its great loss,
Earth joyed at its gain.”
― Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
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