Zozetta

“If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.”
― Georges Bataille

“Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“We even understand a philosophical essay better if we do not gobble it up entirely and at one go, but pick out a detail from which we then arrive at the whole, if we are lucky. Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and perfect are basically abhorrent to us. Only when we are fortunate enough to turn something whole, something complete or indeed perfect into a fragment, when we get down to reading it, only then do we experience a high degree, at times indeed a supreme degree, of pleasure in it.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters: A Comedy

“Πέρα από τη λήθη, αυτό που μας οδηγεί στην αδράνεια είναι βαθύτερο. Γιατί δεν υπάρχει ούτε λησμονιά ούτε νοσταλγία, μόνο λέξεις μαζεμένες όλες μαζί, όμορφα φτιαγμένες για να λες το αυτονόητο, πως η ζωή είναι αδιανόητη.”
― Κατερίνα Μαλακατέ, Το σχέδιο