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“Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.”
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.”
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“The soul paints itself in our machines.”
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“Time moved forward, but the mind was restless and stubborn, and it skipped to wherever it pleased, often to the past: backward, always backward.”
― California
― California
“Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.”
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
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