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“Αν για τον Πλάτωνα ο έρωτας θα έπρεπε να γιατρεύει την πληγή της διχοτόμησης που επέβαλε ο Ζευς, για τον αντιπλατωνισμό του Ροθ ο έρωτας δεν ενοποιεί καθόλου, αλλά διαιρεί, κομματιάζει, ανοίγει στα δύο. Διαιρεί γιατί εκθέτει την τρωτότητά μας φανερώνοντας τον αγιάτρευτο χαρακτήρα της έλλειψής μας.”
― Mantieni il bacio: Lezioni brevi sull'amore
― Mantieni il bacio: Lezioni brevi sull'amore
“I now shudder at the accuracy of some of his prognoses, prophecies that no doubt came from his incredible capacity to process information and to sift the sand of the present through the currents of history. That gave him a certain sense of security, an overconfidence that would no doubt have betrayed a lesser man.”
― The Maniac
― The Maniac
“Υπάρχει μία μόνο προϋπόθεση ώστε η εργασία της συγχώρεσης να μπορέσει να πραγματοποιηθεί: η αποδοχή της ατέλειας του Άλλου, ως μια μορφή της δικής μου ατέλειας.”
― Mantieni il bacio: Lezioni brevi sull'amore
― Mantieni il bacio: Lezioni brevi sull'amore
“...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in it...”
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“They had already put together an entire committee to choose the best targets, but it was actually von Neumann who convinced them that they shouldn’t detonate the devices at ground level, but higher up in the atmosphere, since that way the blast wave would cause incomparably larger damage. He even calculated the optimal height himself—six hundred meters, about two thousand feet. And that is exactly how high our bombs were when they exploded above the roofs of those quaint wooden houses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
― The MANIAC
― The MANIAC
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