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“My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster.”
― It Occurred to Me
― It Occurred to Me
“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.”
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“It is on a day like this one,
a little later a little earlier
that you descover without surprise
that something is wrong
that you don't know how to live
and you will never know”
― Un homme qui dort
a little later a little earlier
that you descover without surprise
that something is wrong
that you don't know how to live
and you will never know”
― Un homme qui dort
“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”
― The Age of Reason
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”
― The Age of Reason
“His [the pedestrian's] elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts his at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was 'possessed' into a text that lies before one's eyes. It allows one to read it, to be a solar Eye, looking down like a god. The exaltation of a scopic and gnostic drive: the fiction of knowledge is related to this lust to be a viewpoint and nothing more.”
― The Practice of Everyday Life
― The Practice of Everyday Life
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