“New Year's Eve always terrifies me.”
― Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
― Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the fall of Athens, of Rome, a long pause will intervene, caused by the exhaustion of consciousness itself. Humanity, to rejoin the past, must invent a second naiveté, without which the arts can never begin again.”
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