Dog Years
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Below the room, in the kitchen, a goose lay in the oven, sizzling in its own fat. This the goose did in the third year of the Great War, when geese had become so rare that the goose was looked upon as a species close to extinction.
“It is here that what I call the outpouring of dream into real life began. From that moment, everything took on a double aspect at times, and this occurred without my reason lacking logic and without my memory loosing the slightest details of what happened to me. But my actions, seemingly unconscious, were dominated by what human reason calls illusion.”
― Aurelia: The Dream and the Life
― Aurelia: The Dream and the Life
“Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.”
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“Contrary to conventional wisdom, opportunity always knocks more than once whereas a false step can never be retraced.”
― Les liaisons dangereuses
― Les liaisons dangereuses
“Reading in no way obliges us to understand.”
― On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore
― On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore
“I wish I wasn't such a dreamer. I've ruined this life for myself.”
― Initial Meeting
― Initial Meeting
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