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“It's a bit like sympathetic magic in a way: the usual Western presumption that 'primitive' rituals mimic what they desire to achieve--that phallic objects might be believed to increase male potency and playacting rainfall might somehow bring it about. I am suspicious of such obvious connections and I suspect that the connections among things, people, and processes can be equally irrational. I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.”
― Bicycle Diaries
― Bicycle Diaries
“there are certain treasures that kill you if you can’t share them with others.”
― Momo
― Momo
“Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.”
― Momo
― Momo
“When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.”
― Social Exclusion
― Social Exclusion
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