Jessica

“To deprive the bourgeoisie not of its art but of its concept of art, this is the precondition of a revolutionary argument.”
― Pierre Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production

“We come up against beauty here — for the first time in our enquiry: beauty at which a novelist should never aim though he fails if he does not achieve it. I will conduct beauty to her proper place later on. Meanwhile please accept her as part of a completed plot. She looks a little surprised at being there, but beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face, as Botticelli knew when he painted her risen from the waves, between the winds and the flowers. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due—she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“how well you understood that it would be easier to me to write to you than to speak!”
― Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de, Les Liaisons dangereuses

“... con tantos encajes pareces una ola y me das el mismo miedo que de niño tuve al mar.”
― Federico García Lorca, Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín