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“It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards. A proposition which, the more it is subjected to careful thought, the more it ends up concluding precisely that life at any given moment cannot really ever be fully understood; exactly because there is no single moment where time stops completely in order for me to take position [to do this]: going backwards.”
― Journals and Papers
― Journals and Papers
“A day well spent is a life well lived.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”
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“Eros'un Istırabı
Bugün aşk cinselliğe, kendisi de başarı emrine tabi olan cinselliğe dönüşerek pozitif bir hal alıyor. Seks başarmaktır. Ve seksilik çoğaltılması gereken bir sermayedir. Beden sergilenme değeriyle bir metaya benzer" (20).
Her şeyin mümkün olduğu, her şeyin insiyatif ve projeden ibaret olduğu, Becerebilme'nin egemenliğindeki başarı toplumunda ise incinme ve tutku olarak aşka geçit yoktur. (21)”
― The Agony of Eros
Bugün aşk cinselliğe, kendisi de başarı emrine tabi olan cinselliğe dönüşerek pozitif bir hal alıyor. Seks başarmaktır. Ve seksilik çoğaltılması gereken bir sermayedir. Beden sergilenme değeriyle bir metaya benzer" (20).
Her şeyin mümkün olduğu, her şeyin insiyatif ve projeden ibaret olduğu, Becerebilme'nin egemenliğindeki başarı toplumunda ise incinme ve tutku olarak aşka geçit yoktur. (21)”
― The Agony of Eros
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”
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