“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.”
― Sodom and Gomorrah
― Sodom and Gomorrah
“We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.”
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
“What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”
― Notes from Underground: w/White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man & selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground: w/White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man & selections from The House of the Dead
“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
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