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“Every sound is by definition a stop, which is how we can hear it.”
― Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
― Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
― Adagia. Lateinisch / Deutsch
― Adagia. Lateinisch / Deutsch
“to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.”
― The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
― The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
“Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.”
― The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing – How Sight Alters the Seen and Transforms the Seer
― The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing – How Sight Alters the Seen and Transforms the Seer
“The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the way and then to suck it for comfort rather than follow it.”
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Allen’s 2025 Year in Books
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